cli: report undeleted resources after cdk destroy

[boillodmanuel]

Describe the feature

Hi,

It would be nice if the CDK cli could report resources that will not be deleted by cdk destroy.
Ideally, this report is displayed before confirmation.

Note: This is a duplicate of #15749 which was closed automatically.
See this comment for possible workarounds.

Use Case

• To have more information about what is happening
• To prevent having some unused resources that are billed

Proposed Solution

No response

Other Information

No response

Acknowledgements

• I may be able to implement this feature request
• This feature might incur a breaking change

CDK version used

2.38.1

Environment details (OS name and version, etc.)

any OS

[niebloomj]

We also really need this in the console. Great idea!

[peterwoodworth]

Thanks for opening a new issue for visibility

The approach you've described to fetch stack resources seems feasible for us to implement without too much overhead

We accept contributions! Check out our contributing guide if you're interested - there's a low chance the team will be able to address this soon but we'd be happy to review a PR 🙂

[niebloomj]

Do you have any tips for where to look in the code to start hacking away at a solution here? Haven't contributed to this repo yet much. Once we build something into the cli for it, how do we go about getting it in the UI of the console? (amazonian here)

[peterwoodworth]

We don't have any control over the console UI, since the CDK isn't its own service and relies on CloudFormation

This file is where our entrypoint and CLI options are 🙂

[TrygviZL]

@niebloomj As the issue has been quiet for some time, I hope you don't mind if I give this one a shot :)

[peterwoodworth]

Thank you very much for the PR @TrygviZL! We'll try to give it a review soon 🙂

[niebloomj]

@niebloomj As the issue has been quiet for some time, I hope you don't mind if I give this one a shot :)

Don't mind at all. Very much appreciated! Excited to learn from your PR