On a related question, if I want to completely abandon all resources managed by pulumi I can simply do

pulumi stack rm --force -y STACKNAME

right? This never touches actually deployed resources?

Correct.

stack rm

just removes the stack from the Pulumi Service, it doesn’t perform any operations modifying resource state. (And the

--force

parameter is to suppress the error that we won’t allow you to delete a stack if it still contains resources, since that would essentially abandon them in many cases. But that’s the goal in your example.)