What’s a recommended recourse for manual deletion of parent resource from cloud provider? I manually deleted a resource and removed it from the code, but it has children resources that need to be deleted as well. When I try to run Pulumi up it tried to delete the children but fails saying the resource refers to a missing parents. Is there an easy workaround for this? Should I manually edit the stack and replace the parent resource with the stack as the parent? The end result I would like is to completely delete the resource and children from the cloud provider and stack.

To delete resources from the provider, remove them from code (or comment them out for a while) then run

pulumi up

.

I'd suggest adding that parent resource back in the state and attempting another

pulumi up

. I haven't been in this situation though so I'm not positive it will work

Likely, you can import it fairly easily using the existing code, and adding the

import

opt.

I see so create it in azure and use the import option?

not sure if the children will be properly configured to be "attached" to the parent if you create it manually and import it though

Is it not already in Azure?

Yeah so the parent resource is deleted. It has some sql users that are children that I wanted to avoid manually deleting but looks like that’s the route I’ll need to likely take

have you tried

pulumi refresh

?

Yeah refresh ended up detecting the parent was deleted, but then the children were left in a state where they reference the parent but the parent doesn’t exist.