Feature request: pulumi destroy --target XYZ --its-okay-if-the-target-doesnt-exist

[wimax-grapl]

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Issue details

I have a Pulumi Stack Output that's like
stateful-resource-urns: ["urn1", "urn2"]

As a stopgap measure in our CI for testing, we basically run a
pulumi destroy --target urn1 --target urn2
followed by a pulumi update to get a fresh version of these stateful resources.

I recently ran into an issue where, due to AWS IAM issues, urn2 was not deletable, and now I'm in a state where

pulumi destroy --target urn1 --target urn2
# urn1 deleted; urn2 not deleted due to IAM issue

< fix IAM issue>

pulumi destroy --target urn1 --target urn2
# pulumi complains that urn1 doesn't exist

As such, I'd love to have some sort of pulumi destroy --target X --its-okay-if-the-target-doesnt-exist

this is very much an edge case and I doubt it'll be actioned on, but wanted to send it out into the ether.

Affected area/feature

pulumi cli

[emiliza]

This is an interesting edge case, that I think should be solved by #3304 - basically always do the destroy regardless of what the errors are that come back, in this case, ignore the error that something doesn't exist

[wimax-grapl]

Thanks for the quick response! Yeah, that seems like a better and more-generalized approach.