Is there some known issue with deletion of objects from Pulumi stacks not working when we perform a partial update with

pulumi up --target=xxx

? In one of our stacks, I always get an error similar to

Target 'urn:pulumi:<pulumi-stack-name>::<pulumi-project-name>::gcp:dns/recordSet:RecordSet::cname-dev' could not be found in the stack. Did you forget to escape $ in your shell?

I have been careful to ensure that there's no

$

in the URN name as the error message seems to suggest. The reason I need to perform such partial updates is that one of the objects in this Pulumi stack is a GCP VPC private subnet, whose metadata gets updated on a vanilla

pulumi up

, but then Pulumi can't update this subnet URN since it's already being used by a GKE cluster.

On the second point - does

ignoreChanges

help? On the first - does it sound like the same thing discussed in https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/3878?

On the second point - does

ignoreChanges

help?

Thanks! Yes, that definitely unblocks us as we can run

pulumi up

successfully now.

On the first - does it sound like the same thing discussed in https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/3878?

Not exactly, I see this error even without the

--target-dependents

option.

Okay - on the —target issue: 1. If you

Pulumi stack export

do you see the urn you are trying to specify? 2. Would you mind opening an issue to track this?

Unfortunately I was not able to reproduce the issue thereafter, will raise it if it happens again