I am making a stack of vpc then eks cluster then install helm charts. It messed up at some point, i manually deleted some resources and now pulumi destroy doesn't work, pulumi up doesn't work, i don't understand how pulumi state edit works - it seems to be a tangled mess of dependencies that are impossible to navigate. What should I do? The infra is not in production so I can delete anything

Have you tried "pulumi refresh"?

Yeah I tried that it didn't do anything useful 🙂

Oh no 😞 refresh is supposed to be able to reconcile engine state with the real world.

refresh

followed by

destroy

should pretty much always work, if it doesn't do let us know what exactly went wrong, we can take a look into it.