I have some code which initializes a database (creates, grants privileges and so on) if it is not already initialized and should delete it on

destroy

. I am not using the automation API and wondering if there is a property somewhere that tells me what mode is the CLI running under like

up

,

destroy

,

refresh

,

preview

and so on. I check

pulumi.runtime

but it doesn't seem to expose this. I am probably not doing it the correct way, maybe dynamic providers?

in your pulumi code you can check for

IsDryRun

which tells you if it is

preview

. That is so you can omit work that should only run during an

up

. Both

refresh

and

destroy

don't actually execute your pulumi code so it isn't necessary to check for them

hmm but I do want to run some code on

destroy

for cleanup but I guess that should live elsewhere. Thanks for the tip though 👍

Np. Yea you'll have to do post-destroy work independently of your call to

pulumi destroy

. Because

pulumi destroy

just loads your providers and destroyed what is currently in your state, which is why it doesn't execute your pulumi code