How do I refresh pulumi state for my stack to sync with the actual state of my cloud infra? Namely, I have k8s resources (service, deployment, ingress) showing in my state, but the cluster was manually deleted. When I do

pulumi refresh

, I get the following error for these k8s resources:

failed to read resource state due to unreachable cluster. If the cluster has been deleted, you can edit the pulumi state to remove this resource

So I get the URN by executing

pulumi stack --show-urns

. But when I copy the URN for the k8s resource in to

pulumi state delete <urn>

, I see the error:

No such resource "<urn>" exists in the current state

Is there a way to sync state so I can reliably do

pulumi destroy/up

again with the correct assumptions about current state of cloud infra?

is your cluster unreachable?

Yes, it’s deleted

set the environment variables

PULUMI_K8S_DELETE_UNREACHABLE

and then run

pulumi refresh

Get the same error

You must be on an old provider version, you'll have to manually remove the resources in which case

Right, I’ll do that on the infra side. But how do I clear the pulumi state for the stack? After I delete the infra, if I run

pulumi up

, it’ll still assume the k8s resources are there since they’re in the state.

you'll need to

pulumi stack export

modify the JSON to remove the resources then

pulumi stack import --file

export --> import probably would have done the trick. Didn’t let me delete urns since it claimed they didn’t exist. Ended up deleting the stack and redeploying.