I was receiving a

permission denied error

trying to

pulumi destroy

a small stack with storage buckets. The policy troubleshooter confirms I have access, and I went the extra steps to confirm their is no organizational deny rules (no deny rules at all) related to

storage.buckets.delete

. This is just a dev stack, so on a hunch it wouldn’t allow deletion of buckets with contents I destroyed the buckets in the gcp console. I’m still trying to

destroy

the stack but get

* googleapi: Error 404: The specified bucket does not exist., notFound

. How do I

force

pulumi to discard the resources? Export/edit/import then destroy?

Run

pulumi refresh -y

to update the Pulumi state file and then

pulumi destroy

should work.

ok, I tried a

pulumi up -r

but that didn’t work. Thanks for that note, if there were more resources I would have needed that. I got out of it with a

pulumi stack rm --force

since it was such a focused stack.

Hmmm - I’m surprised the

pulumi up -r

didn’t bring the state to a known state (pun intended) from which

pulumi destroy

would work.

I agree, it succeeded but did not recreate or remove the buckets from the stack.