Is there a way to remove a resource before

pulumi up

?

is pulumi state delete an option for you?

so just running

pulumi state delete

? And what does that do?

@nice-airport-15607 can you further clarify what you mean by “removing” a resource before

pulumi up

? did you run

pulumi up

previously but now your input resources mismatch the outputs created in the state file? Therefore when deleting or refreshing the state file for pulumi, you are getting an exception?

@narrow-area-11460 I had to

pulumi refresh

and then was able

pulumi up

. The resource was missing and I couldn’t push until that was fixed. What I mean by removing a resource was saying could one remove just one

aws:appsync:GraphQLApi

so pulumi state is saved in your local filesystem as well as the web service - basically each time you run an operation a snapshot is created -- it is possible that the snapshots of resources on your local filesystem and that on the web backend are not in sync. can you try

pulumi stack export > out

followed by

cat out | pulumi stack import

and then do

pulumi up

?

@narrow-area-11460 thx for the advice, will keep this on hand for next time.

np - did it work?

i got it working prior to your idea, so its working atm. if me or my team run into this again, ill try your solution for sure.

you could also just directly delete the resource that is missing from the state file -- you should be able to see the "URN" of the resource that is missing. If so, all you do is

pulumi stack delete <resource URN>

ya that was the other option i noticed too. def will try these in the future as we’re new to pulumi.

🙂 thats awesome! would love to find out about your use case, which cloud is of interest and the company you are with, when the time is appropriate -- might be late for you and its Sunday 🙂

we’re trying to move over to pulumi from severless. Our cloud is AWS services and our company is https://gpstrackit.com

awesome! I ran Amazon EKS engg OSS -- if you have an architecture you are working with in AWS (service design), we could help you move faster. In any case, ping me if you have questions. Cheers!