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You could set `retainOnDelete` on everything except the VM. You could also could set `skipAwait` on your K8s resources (I think?).

You could also try putting the VM and K8s resources in a separate stack and just tear down the VM stack, but that's pretty dirty and I'm not sure what experience you'd have trying to remove the K8s stack after the fact.

And I think you can set `retainOnDelete` conditionally based on the stack (it would be `true` in dev, `false` otherwise)

Thanks a lot! It seems that `retainOnDelete` is what I need.