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Closes #183. Replaces #461, which took the opposite approach — see the retain investigation.

The constraint

A GCP down cannot delete the project VPC in one pass. Cloud Run attaches to it with Direct VPC egress (buildVpcAccess, cloudrun.go), and GCP holds the subnet's IP addresses for 1-2 hours after the service is gone:

"After you delete or move your Cloud Run resources, wait 1-2 hours for Cloud Run to release the IP addresses before you delete the subnet."
Cloud Run Direct VPC docs

Until then the subnet delete fails with resourceInUseByAnotherResource, and the network cannot go before its subnet. This is documented behaviour, not a pulumi-gcp defect, so no inline retry can cover it — nothing can block an apply for two hours.

What was wrong

The new provider copied the legacy retain set—the network, subnet, MIG instance templates, and Service Networking connection—but did not port the legacy delayed cleanup. That kept down green while orphaning the retained resources, so every GCP down leaked a VPC until the project hit its NETWORKS quota (30). That is issue 183.

What this does

Remove the four network-related retains and handle the window by retrying the Pulumi destroy instead of porting the legacy hand-written teardown. The destroy already runs with ContinueOnError, so it deletes everything it can. If the only resources still standing are the ones known to wait on that window, the down reports success and schedules a Cloud Scheduler job that re-runs down. Pulumi then performs the remaining deletes itself, from live state, in its own dependency order. A retry whose destroy succeeds deletes the job that started it.

Net effect: down stays green, nothing is orphaned, and the VPC actually goes away.

One resource Pulumi cannot delete

The Service Networking connection is the exception, and the first push of this branch got it wrong.

The provider's delete calls servicenetworking deleteConnection, and that call cannot be relied on. Two reasons, and only the first is a bug:

So the delete has to be ours, through the Compute API. This PR does both halves upstream leaves undone:

  • DeletionPolicy: "ABANDON" on the connection, so Pulumi stops attempting the doomed call and can delete the rest of the VPC. The field is Optional+Computed and not ForceNew, so it updates in place and never replaces the peering.
  • A PeeringCleanup resource in this provider (provider/defanggcp/peering_cleanup.go). Create is a no-op; Delete calls compute.networks.removePeering, the call the console uses. Abandoning leaves the peering, and the peering holds the reserved range, so without this the range, the subnet and the VPC would all keep failing.

Doing it as a resource rather than in the CD matters twice over:

  • Nothing is read from a state snapshot. The VPC's name is this resource's own input.
  • Pulumi orders the teardown. The managed instances depend on the cleanup resource, which depends on the connection, which holds the reserved range — so a destroy runs instances → peering → range → subnet → VPC, the only order GCP accepts, with no hand-written sequence. SharedInfra.ServiceConnection is renamed to ServiceNetworking because it now carries the cleanup resource rather than the connection.
  • It also fixes a plain pulumi destroy for anyone using the generated SDK directly, not just this repo's CD.

GCP does warn against deleting a private connection this way, because the connection record survives and a later CreateConnection on the same network with different ranges then fails. That does not apply here: this only ever runs on the way to deleting the network itself, so no later connection can be created on it. The comment on the resource says so.

Why this shape rather than #461's

  • No state archaeology. [on hold] feat(gcp): delete the retained VPC with a scheduled cleanup job #461 walked the versioned state backup to recover the network id. I measured that on the real bucket: 451 generations for a single stack, with the newest holding 0 resources, so the walk had to step back ~11-15 generations to find the network. It also silently depended on bucket versioning staying on and nobody adding a lifecycle rule. Here the live state Pulumi already holds is the source of truth.
  • No teardown logic. [on hold] feat(gcp): delete the retained VPC with a scheduled cleanup job #461 re-implemented GCP's dependency order by hand — instance templates, peering, routers, subnets, network — roughly 400 lines, and the least testable part of it. Pulumi already knows that order.
  • One new dependency in the CDcloud.google.com/go/scheduler for the job. The removePeering call lives in the provider, which is where the compute client belongs.

Known gap: stacks whose state predates this change

This is the honest limit of this design, and it is the one thing #461 does cover.

retainOnDelete is recorded per resource in the checkpoint (apitype.ResourceV3), and pulumi destroy does not re-run the program — optdestroy.RunProgram exists precisely to opt into that, and the CD selects the stack with a nil program. So removing the retains in provider code changes nothing for a stack whose current state was written by the old code. Its down still retains, still reports success, and still leaks the VPC — and because the destroy does not fail, there is nothing for onlyPendingTeardown to classify and no retry is scheduled.

Verified rather than assumed: every GCP state in the defang-playground-dev CD bucket holds zero network and subnet resources while html-css-js-vpc-e99e23a is still standing in the project, and the retained project services in a live checkpoint carry "retainOnDelete": true.

So this fixes the leak for every stack deployed, or redeployed, on this version. Stacks that are only ever downed on an older state need one sweep by hand. Worth deciding before merge: that sweep is cheap right now (defang-playground-dev is at 2/30 networks, the backlog having been purged by hand), but it is unmeasured in customer projects.

Design notes for review

The classification reads state, not error text (onlyPendingTeardown). That state is exactly what the retry will act on, whereas an error string is not a contract. It deliberately does not match a surviving Cloud SQL instance or Cloud Run service — those are real failures and must still surface as a failed down, even though they would also block the network. Over-matching here would hide real breakage behind a scheduled retry, so the must-not-match cases are tested as carefully as the must-match ones.

A treated-as-success failure must not retire the job. cd_main.go keeps the original destroyErr for that reason: only a destroy that genuinely succeeded calls finishGcpCleanup.

The retries are bounded by cleanupDeadline (24h). A delete still failing a day later is stuck on something the 1-2h window does not explain — for instance terraform-provider-google#19908, still open, where a servicenetworking connection can refuse to delete. The job then removes itself and says the VPC needs deleting by hand, rather than firing every 2 hours indefinitely.

Retains removed, and why. The peering (vpc_peering.go) and MIG instance template (compute.go) both hold the subnet, so retaining them would block Pulumi from completing the retry. The template races its MIG's asynchronous deletion, which the retry covers; the connection is the abandon-plus-PeeringCleanup case above.

Retains kept, because these have reasons: the enabled APIs (gcp.go, project.go — deliberately not disabled on down) and the Cloud SQL user/database sub-objects (cloudsql.go, DeletionPolicy: ABANDON, the ordinary pattern for objects the instance delete removes anyway). The Artifact Registry retain is left alone: it is issue #457's subject.

Testing

go test -race green for cd/; ./provider/... and the tests/ module green too. No test asserted on the retain flags.

Unit tests cover the pure logic — the classification (including the must-not-match cases), remainingTypes ignoring the stack and providers, the VPC name PeeringCleanup removes peerings from (id, self-link and bare name, so a silent 404 no-op is caught), job-name round-trip and UTC parsing, the cron for odd/even/midnight-crossing hours, the deadline invariants, and that the scheduled build re-runs down and carries the job name.

What is not covered: the scheduler and compute calls, and the retry actually succeeding. There is no GCP mock in cd/, so end-to-end verification needs a real GCP down on a stack with Postgres, plus the ~2h wait. The type tokens in pendingTeardownTypes were taken from a real checkpoint in the CD bucket rather than guessed, which removes one class of error, but does not substitute for that.

The schema gains defang-gcp:index:PeeringCleanup and is committed here. I could not regenerate the Go SDK locally — this box's Pulumi CLI emits v1 (sdk/go/...) import paths and fails in defang-aws before reaching gcp — so the SDK commit is left to the Regenerate job, which auto-commits on same-repo PRs.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added automatic retry handling for delayed GCP resource cleanup after failed stack deletions.
    • Cleanup retries continue for up to 24 hours and stop when resources are removed or the retry period expires.
    • Improved handling of GCP teardown failures so eligible cleanup operations can complete asynchronously.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented retained networking and compute resources from blocking subsequent infrastructure deletion attempts.
  • Documentation

    • Updated deployment cleanup tracking to reflect the new automated retry behavior.

A GCP `down` cannot delete the project VPC in one pass. Cloud Run
attaches to it with Direct VPC egress and GCP holds the subnet's IP
addresses for 1-2 hours after the service is gone, so the subnet delete
fails with resourceInUseByAnotherResource and the network cannot go
before its subnet. That wait is documented GCP behaviour, not a provider
bug, so no inline retry can cover it:
https://docs.cloud.google.com/run/docs/configuring/vpc-direct-vpc

Until now the provider avoided the failure by marking the network and
subnet RetainOnDelete, which kept `down` green but orphaned them, and
nothing ever cleaned them up — the leaked networks then exhausted the
project's NETWORKS quota (30 per project). That is issue 183.

Delete them normally instead, as the legacy CD does, and handle the
window in the CD: the destroy already runs with ContinueOnError, so if
the only resources still standing are the ones known to wait on that
window, report success and schedule a Cloud Scheduler job that re-runs
`down`. Pulumi then performs the remaining deletes itself, from live
state, in its own dependency order. A retry whose destroy succeeds
deletes the job that started it.

Three consequences worth noting:

- No teardown logic here. An earlier attempt (closed PR 461) walked 451
  state-file generations to recover the network id and then re-
  implemented GCP's dependency order by hand. Both are gone; the state
  Pulumi already holds is the source of truth.
- The classification reads the stack's remaining resource types rather
  than matching the destroy's error text, because that state is exactly
  what the retry will act on, and an error string is not a contract. It
  deliberately does NOT match a surviving Cloud SQL instance or Cloud Run
  service: those are real failures and must still surface.
- The retries are bounded by cleanupDeadline. A delete still failing a
  day later is stuck on something the window does not explain (for
  instance hashicorp/terraform-provider-google#19908), so the job removes
  itself and says so instead of firing every 2 hours for ever.

The peering (vpc_peering.go) and MIG instance template (compute.go) lose
their retains for the same reason: both hold the subnet, so retaining
them would block the VPC delete permanently, and both of their failure
modes are races the retry covers. The retains that stay are the ones with
a reason — enabled APIs (not disabled on down) and the Cloud SQL
user/database sub-objects (DeletionPolicy ABANDON).

Closes #183

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T3WmpdY3zc555sNdkY9dzQ
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The change replaces retained GCP resources with delayed Pulumi destroy retries. CD classifies eligible teardown failures, schedules Cloud Scheduler and Cloud Build retries, and removes cleanup jobs after completion or expiration.

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GCP teardown cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Allow deferred GCP resource deletion
provider/defanggcp/gcp/compute.go, provider/defanggcp/gcp/gcp.go, provider/defanggcp/gcp/vpc_peering.go
VPC, subnet, instance template, and service networking resources no longer use pulumi.RetainOnDelete(true).
Classify destroy results
cd/cd_main.go, cd/cleanup_gcp.go
Destroy handling inspects live Pulumi state, identifies eligible pending GCP resources, preserves unrelated errors, and retires cleanup only after successful destruction.
Schedule and execute cleanup retries
cd/cleanup_gcp.go, cd/go.mod
Cloud Scheduler creates recurring Cloud Build jobs that rerun down. The implementation configures retry timing, environment values, job naming, expiration, and not-found handling.
Validate cleanup behavior
cd/cleanup_gcp_test.go, cd/TODO.md
Tests cover classification, parsing, timing, job configuration, naming, and environment precedence. The tracking document records the completed cleanup implementation.

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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to f742b

The cleanup change can persist credentials in a scheduled job, repeatedly launch failed retries, or report success while the VPC is still present; a missing pending-resource classification can also leave network resources behind. These security and cleanup-correctness issues make the PR unsafe to merge until addressed.

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  CD->>Pulumi: inspect live stack state
  CD->>CloudScheduler: schedule cleanup retry
  CloudScheduler->>CloudBuild: trigger cd down
  CloudBuild->>Pulumi: retry destroy
  Pulumi-->>CloudBuild: return cleanup result
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The retry approach is promising, but the current lifecycle can miss the expected partial teardown, destroy a replacement deployment, and eventually report success while abandoning resources. The inline comments include the MVP cross-check.

Comment thread cd/cleanup_gcp.go Outdated
}

// remainingTypes lists the resource types still in the stack's state, ignoring
// the stack itself and its providers, which are not cloud resources.

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[P1] Ignore component resources when classifying the partial destroy

The VPC and subnet are children of the defang-gcp:index:Project component (provider/defanggcp/project.go), and Pulumi must delete children before their parent. When either child fails deletion, that component remains in the exported checkpoint too. Since this function ignores only the stack and providers, onlyPendingTeardown sees the component type and rejects the exact partial teardown this feature is meant to handle. Parse the resource's custom bit and ignore non-custom/component resources (with a test containing the Project component), or explicitly account for the component types.

Comment thread cd/cleanup_gcp.go
build := map[string]any{
"steps": []map[string]any{{
"name": cdImage,
"args": []string{string(client.CdCommandDown)},

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[P1] Guard the retry against a replacement deployment

This job runs down against whatever live state currently occupies the same project/stack, not the deployment generation that scheduled it. If the user redeploys after the first down reports success but before the two-hour retry, this invocation destroys the new deployment. Old MVP explicitly checked whether the live stack state existed and skipped cleanup when it did (gcpcd/cleanup.go:52-61), while its backup lookup was bounded by the job creation time. This retry needs an equivalent generation/token guard (and up should cancel or invalidate stale cleanup jobs) before it can target the live stack safely.

Comment thread cd/cleanup_gcp.go Outdated
if age := time.Since(createdAt); age > cleanupDeadline {
warn(fmt.Sprintf(" ** The VPC has resisted deletion for %s, which the IP-release window does not explain.", age.Round(time.Hour)))
warn(" ** Giving up and removing the retry job; the VPC needs deleting by hand in the GCP console.")
return deleteGcpCleanupJob(ctx, jobID)

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[P1] Do not turn an expired failed destroy into success

When deletion is still failing after the deadline, a successful scheduler-job deletion returns nil here. handleGcpPendingTeardown then returns nil too, so this final down is reported as successful even though the VPC remains and no retry exists. Delete the job as best effort, but return an error (ideally the original destroy error) so the terminal leak is visible to CI/the caller rather than only in Cloud Build logs.

Comment thread cd/cleanup_gcp.go Outdated
return
}
if err := deleteGcpCleanupJob(ctx, jobID); err != nil {
// The job is idempotent, so a leftover only costs one more no-op run.

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[P2] A failed job deletion does not lead to one no-op retry

After this successful destroy, optdestroy.Remove() has removed the stack. If deleting the Scheduler job fails, its next run exits at SelectStackInlineSource because the stack no longer exists, before finishGcpCleanup or the deadline check can run. The cron therefore remains indefinitely rather than costing one no-op run. A scheduled retry must treat a missing stack as cleanup success and delete its job, or job retirement must be made reliable before stack selection.

Comment thread cd/cleanup_gcp.go Outdated
// that waits on the IP-release window. An empty list means the destroy finished,
// which is not a pending teardown.
//
// This reads the state rather than matching on the destroy's error text: the

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[P1] Resource types do not establish why deletion failed

Any error that leaves only these types—permission denied, quota/API outage, a provider regression, or the expected resourceInUseByAnotherResource—is converted to success. The remaining state says what still exists, but not why its deletion failed, so this can hide unrelated failures for a day and then abandon the resources. Require evidence that the destroy error is the known GCP in-use condition (or another structured signal) in addition to checking the remaining state.

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Inline comments:
In `@cd/cleanup_gcp.go`:
- Around line 151-158: Apply the cleanup deadline on every failure path in the
scheduled teardown flow, including errors from remainingTypes and non-pending
teardown detected by onlyPendingTeardown. Add a shared retireExpiredCleanupJob
helper and invoke it before returning destroyErr from these paths; also reuse it
from ensureGcpCleanupScheduled to avoid duplicate expiry logic.
- Around line 274-297: Update gcpCleanupBuild to filter secret-bearing variables
from the env map before constructing envList, excluding
PULUMI_CONFIG_PASSPHRASE, PULUMI_ACCESS_TOKEN, and arbitrary DEFANG_* tokens
while retaining the cleanupJobEnvVar value and other required non-secret
variables.
- Around line 183-189: Update the deadline-exceeded branch in
handleGcpPendingTeardown to return the original VPC destruction error after
removing the retry job, rather than returning deleteGcpCleanupJob’s nil success
result. Preserve the cleanup-job removal and warning behavior while ensuring
expiry propagates the destroy failure.
- Around line 84-89: Update pending teardown classification in
pendingTeardownTypes/onlyPendingTeardown to include the peering GlobalAddress
identified by the URN for projectName+"-peering-ip", not the bare GlobalAddress
type; preserve exclusion of the public projectName+"-ip" address so only the VPC
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Comment thread cd/cleanup_gcp.go
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var pendingTeardownTypes = map[string]bool{
typeNetwork: true,
typeSubnetwork: true,
typeSvcConnection: true,
typeInstanceTemplate: true,
}

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fd -e go . provider/defanggcp --exec rg -n 'GlobalAddress|servicenetworking|ReservedPeeringRanges|peering-ip' {}
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echo '--- cd/cleanup_gcp.go outline ---'
ast-grep outline cd/cleanup_gcp.go || true
echo '--- cd/cleanup_gcp.go relevant sections ---'
sed -n '1,130p' cd/cleanup_gcp.go
sed -n '130,280p' cd/cleanup_gcp.go

echo '--- VPC peering implementation ---'
fd -i -t f 'vpc_peering.go' . --exec sh -c 'echo "### $1"; cat -n "$1"' sh {}

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cleanup = Path("cd/cleanup_gcp.go").read_text()
peering = Path("provider/defanggcp/gcp/vpc_peering.go").read_text()

checks = {
    "global address is not a pending teardown type": "gcp:compute/globalAddress:GlobalAddress" not in cleanup,
    "remainingTypes retains URN in its JSON model": re.search(r'URN\s+string\s+`json:"urn"`', cleanup) is not None,
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    "connection consumes the address name": 'ReservedPeeringRanges: pulumi.StringArray{privateIpAlloc.Name}' in peering,
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Pulumi ContinueOnError destroy failed dependency dependent resource delete skipped checkpoint state

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When a Pulumi destroy operation encounters a resource that fails to delete, it typically halts to prevent leaving the infrastructure in an inconsistent or orphaned state [1]. To address this, Pulumi introduced the --continue-on-error flag, which allows the destroy process to proceed with destroying other, non-dependent resources [2][1]. How it works: When --continue-on-error is used, Pulumi will attempt to destroy all resources that are not in the same dependency tree as the failed resource [1]. If a resource depends on a failed resource, Pulumi will automatically skip the deletion of that dependent resource to preserve the integrity of the dependency chain [3][1]. Because these resources remain managed by Pulumi, they can be revisited or cleaned up in subsequent runs after the underlying issue with the failed resource is resolved [1]. Key considerations: 1. Operation status: The command will exit with a non-zero exit code if any failures occurred, even if --continue-on-error was used [1]. 2. Manual intervention: The feature is designed to be safe by not breaking dependencies [4]. If a resource remains in the stack due to a failure, you must manually resolve the underlying issue (e.g., removing external dependencies or fixing permissions) in the cloud provider before Pulumi can successfully delete it [5]. 3. Verification: Once you have manually resolved the issues for the undeletable resources, you can run pulumi refresh to synchronize the Pulumi state with the actual infrastructure before attempting another destroy [5]. Usage: The flag can be used via the CLI: pulumi destroy --continue-on-error It is also available in automation API as an option (e.g., continueOnError: true in DestroyOptions) [6][7][8]. For scenarios where you need even more aggressive cleanup and are prepared to handle potential dependency issues yourself, you may look at related features like --exclude [9] or monitor ongoing development regarding force-destroy capabilities [3][4].

Citations:


Include the VPC peering GlobalAddress in pending teardown classification. createVPCPeeringInfra passes privateIpAlloc.Name to ReservedPeeringRanges, so the connection depends on the peering address. With ContinueOnError, a failed connection delete skips the dependent address delete and leaves gcp:compute/globalAddress:GlobalAddress in state. onlyPendingTeardown then returns false, so no retry is scheduled. Do not match the bare type because it also matches the public projectName+"-ip" address. Match the URN for projectName+"-peering-ip" instead.

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In `@cd/cleanup_gcp.go` around lines 84 - 89, Update pending teardown
classification in pendingTeardownTypes/onlyPendingTeardown to include the
peering GlobalAddress identified by the URN for projectName+"-peering-ip", not
the bare GlobalAddress type; preserve exclusion of the public projectName+"-ip"
address so only the VPC peering address is retried.

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types, err := remainingTypes(export.Deployment)
if err != nil {
warn(" **", err)
return destroyErr
}
if !onlyPendingTeardown(types) {
return destroyErr
}

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A retry job is never retired when the destroy fails for a non-pending reason. cleanupDeadline is only checked inside ensureGcpCleanupScheduled, which runs on the pending-teardown path. If a scheduled retry hits any other failure (state unreadable at line 148, or a surviving Cloud SQL instance), this function returns destroyErr and leaves the Cloud Scheduler job in place. The job then fires every 2 hours forever and starts a Cloud Build run each time.

Apply the deadline on every failure path of a scheduled run.

🛠️ Proposed fix: retire an expired job on all failure paths
 func handleGcpPendingTeardown(ctx context.Context, stack auto.Stack, projectName, stackName string, destroyErr error) error {
 	if destroyErr == nil || gcpProjectFromEnv() == "" {
 		return destroyErr
 	}
+	// A scheduled retry must stop rerunning once the deadline passes, whatever
+	// the failure is; otherwise its cron fires every 2 hours for ever.
+	defer retireExpiredCleanupJob(ctx)
 
 	export, err := stack.Export(ctx)

Add the helper, and reuse it from ensureGcpCleanupScheduled:

// retireExpiredCleanupJob removes the retry job of the current run once it is
// past cleanupDeadline; a failure that outlives the window needs a human.
func retireExpiredCleanupJob(ctx context.Context) {
	jobID := os.Getenv(cleanupJobEnvVar)
	if jobID == "" {
		return
	}
	createdAt, err := cleanupJobCreatedAt(jobID)
	if err != nil {
		warn(" **", err)
		return
	}
	if time.Since(createdAt) <= cleanupDeadline {
		return
	}
	warn(" ** Giving up on the retry job", jobID, "- the teardown needs finishing by hand.")
	if err := deleteGcpCleanupJob(ctx, jobID); err != nil {
		warn(" ** Failed to remove the retry job", jobID, "-", err)
	}
}
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In `@cd/cleanup_gcp.go` around lines 151 - 158, Apply the cleanup deadline on
every failure path in the scheduled teardown flow, including errors from
remainingTypes and non-pending teardown detected by onlyPendingTeardown. Add a
shared retireExpiredCleanupJob helper and invoke it before returning destroyErr
from these paths; also reuse it from ensureGcpCleanupScheduled to avoid
duplicate expiry logic.

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if age := time.Since(createdAt); age > cleanupDeadline {
warn(fmt.Sprintf(" ** The VPC has resisted deletion for %s, which the IP-release window does not explain.", age.Round(time.Hour)))
warn(" ** Giving up and removing the retry job; the VPC needs deleting by hand in the GCP console.")
return deleteGcpCleanupJob(ctx, jobID)
}
warn(" ** Leaving the retry job in place; it will try again within 2 hours.")
return nil

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Giving up after the deadline still reports success. On expiry this branch returns the result of deleteGcpCleanupJob, which is nil on success. handleGcpPendingTeardown then returns nil, so the run exits 0 while the VPC is still present and no retry remains. The leak becomes visible only in a warn line.

Return the original destroy failure once the deadline passes.

🛠️ Proposed fix: surface the expiry as a failure
+// errCleanupExpired reports that the retries ran out of time, so the destroy
+// failure must surface instead of being reported as success.
+var errCleanupExpired = errors.New("the teardown did not finish within the retry window")
+
 func ensureGcpCleanupScheduled(ctx context.Context, projectName, stackName string) error {
 	jobID := os.Getenv(cleanupJobEnvVar)
 	if jobID == "" {
 		return scheduleGcpCleanup(ctx, projectName, stackName)
 	}
 
 	createdAt, err := cleanupJobCreatedAt(jobID)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	if age := time.Since(createdAt); age > cleanupDeadline {
 		warn(fmt.Sprintf(" ** The VPC has resisted deletion for %s, which the IP-release window does not explain.", age.Round(time.Hour)))
 		warn(" ** Giving up and removing the retry job; the VPC needs deleting by hand in the GCP console.")
-		return deleteGcpCleanupJob(ctx, jobID)
+		if err := deleteGcpCleanupJob(ctx, jobID); err != nil {
+			warn(" ** Failed to remove the retry job", jobID, "-", err)
+		}
+		return errCleanupExpired
 	}
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In `@cd/cleanup_gcp.go` around lines 183 - 189, Update the deadline-exceeded
branch in handleGcpPendingTeardown to return the original VPC destruction error
after removing the retry job, rather than returning deleteGcpCleanupJob’s nil
success result. Preserve the cleanup-job removal and warning behavior while
ensuring expiry propagates the destroy failure.

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func gcpCleanupBuild(cdImage, gcpProject, saEmail, stackName, jobID string, environ []string) ([]byte, error) {
env := program.SelfDestructEnv(environ)
env[cleanupJobEnvVar] = jobID
envList := make([]string, 0, len(env))
for _, k := range slices.Sorted(maps.Keys(env)) {
envList = append(envList, k+"="+env[k])
}
build := map[string]any{
"steps": []map[string]any{{
"name": cdImage,
"args": []string{string(client.CdCommandDown)},
"env": envList,
}},
"options": map[string]any{
// Custom-service-account builds require an explicit logging mode.
"logging": "CLOUD_LOGGING_ONLY",
"enableStructuredLogging": true,
},
"timeout": fmt.Sprintf("%ds", int(program.CdTimeout.Seconds())),
"tags": []string{"defang-cd", "defang-cleanup", stackName},
"serviceAccount": fmt.Sprintf("projects/%s/serviceAccounts/%s", gcpProject, saEmail),
}
return json.Marshal(build)
}

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    match = re.search(rf"(?ms)^var {name}\s*=\s*(.*?)(?=^func |^var |\Z)", text)
    print(f"--- {name} ---")
    print(match.group(1).strip() if match else "not found")

print("--- candidate secret-bearing environment names ---")
keys = [
    "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID",
    "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY",
    "AWS_SESSION_TOKEN",
    "GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS",
    "GOOGLE_OAUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN",
    "GCP_ACCESS_TOKEN",
    "DEFANG_ACCESS_TOKEN",
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    "PULUMI_ACCESS_TOKEN",
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]
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# Read-only behavioral probe equivalent to SelfDestructEnv and gcpCleanupBuild.
exclude = {
    "DEFANG_EVENTS_UPLOAD_URL", "DEFANG_STATES_UPLOAD_URL",
    "DEFANG_ETAG", "DEFANG_PULUMI_TARGETS", "DEFANG_TTL",
    "AZURE_FEDERATED_TOKEN_FILE", "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID",
    "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY", "AWS_SESSION_TOKEN",
    "AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET", "AZURE_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_PATH",
    "AZURE_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD",
}
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         "PROJECT", "REGION", "STACK", "USER"}
prefixes = ("AWS_", "AZURE_", "DEFANG_", "GCLOUD_", "GCP_", "PULUMI_")

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    out = {}
    for item in environ:
        if "=" not in item:
            continue
        key, value = item.split("=", 1)
        if key in exclude:
            continue
        if key in exact or key.startswith(prefixes):
            out[key] = value
    return out

environ = [
    "PULUMI_CONFIG_PASSPHRASE=secret-passphrase",
    "PULUMI_ACCESS_TOKEN=secret-access-token",
    "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=excluded-access-key",
    "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=excluded-secret-key",
    "AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=excluded-session-token",
    "AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET=excluded-client-secret",
    "DEFANG_API_TOKEN=secret-defang-token",
    "DEFANG_STATE_URL=gs://state-bucket",
    "GCLOUD_PROJECT=example-project",
    "PATH=/usr/bin",
]
retained = self_destruct_env(environ)
build = {"steps": [{"name": "cd-image", "args": ["down"],
                     "env": [f"{k}={retained[k]}" for k in sorted(retained)]}]}
body = json.dumps(build, separators=(",", ":"))
print("retained keys:", sorted(retained))
print("secret values present:", {
    key: value for key, value in retained.items()
    if "PASSPHRASE" in key or "TOKEN" in key or "SECRET" in key
})
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Exclude secret-bearing variables from the persisted Scheduler body. SelfDestructEnv retains PULUMI_CONFIG_PASSPHRASE, PULUMI_ACCESS_TOKEN, and arbitrary DEFANG_* tokens, which gcpCleanupBuild serializes into the Cloud Scheduler job.

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In `@cd/cleanup_gcp.go` around lines 274 - 297, Update gcpCleanupBuild to filter
secret-bearing variables from the env map before constructing envList, excluding
PULUMI_CONFIG_PASSPHRASE, PULUMI_ACCESS_TOKEN, and arbitrary DEFANG_* tokens
while retaining the cleanupJobEnvVar value and other required non-secret
variables.

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Review verdict: this is not ready to merge yet. I found five blocking lifecycle/classification problems:

  • the surviving defang-gcp:index:Project component can prevent the expected partial teardown from classifying;
  • a scheduled retry can destroy a replacement deployment created under the same project/stack;
  • the 24-hour deadline reports success after abandoning the VPC;
  • a failed Scheduler-job deletion can leave an indefinitely firing job; and
  • remaining resource types alone cannot prove the destroy failed for the expected GCP IP-release condition.

The replacement-deployment risk is an important regression from old MVP, which checked for live stack state and skipped cleanup when it existed. Full inline review: #462 (review)

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Converted to draft. The review is correct on all seven points, and two of them I want to acknowledge plainly because they are my errors, not nits.

The classification never fires. This PR is inert as written. I verified against a real checkpoint in the CD bucket: defang-gcp:index:Project carries custom: false and is the parent of both the network and the subnet. Pulumi cannot delete a parent before its children, so a blocked subnet keeps the component in state, remainingTypes returns defang-gcp:index:Project, and onlyPendingTeardown rejects exactly the case the feature exists for. The custom bit is the right discriminator, and it is also better than enumerating component type names as I would have done.

The replacement-deployment risk is the serious one. A scheduled retry runs down against whatever occupies the project/stack at fire time, and it destroys first and classifies after. So: first down reports success, the user redeploys, and two hours later the job destroys the new deployment. That is data loss, and MVP explicitly guarded against it (gcpcd/cleanup.go:52-61 skipped when live state existed). I dropped that guard in the redesign on the reasoning that "Pulumi acts on live state" — which is precisely what makes it dangerous. My mistake.

The other five all hold too:

  • the deadline path returns nil, so a terminal leak is reported as a successful down;
  • a failed job deletion is not "one no-op run": optdestroy.Remove() has already removed the stack, so the next fire dies at SelectStackInlineSource before any retirement logic, and the cron then fires for ever;
  • the deadline is only checked on the pending path, so any other failure in a scheduled run also leaves the job firing for ever;
  • remaining resource types say what survived, not why — permission denied, a quota outage or a provider regression all get converted to success. State and error signal are both needed, not either;
  • the peering GlobalAddress is skipped when the connection delete fails (it is the connection's dependency), so it lands in state and defeats the classification. And matching the bare type would over-match the public -ip address — confirmed in the same checkpoint, where the public address is the same type. URN matching on -peering-ip is required.

Working through all seven now. The pre-destroy guard changes the shape: a scheduled run must verify the stack still holds only what it was scheduled for before it destroys anything, and treat a missing stack as success.

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Correction: the premise of this PR is wrong, and it was my error

The docs commit pushed to this branch (f742bed) is right and I was wrong. The legacy CD does retain all four of these resources. My claim that "none has a recorded rationale, all four diverge from the old CD" came from a case-sensitive grep for retainOnDelete in Go code, where the option is pulumi.RetainOnDelete. It matched nothing and I took that as evidence. There are in fact eight retains in defang-mvp/pulumi/cd/gcp/, including all four of these:

  • tenant_stack.go:139 — the network
  • tenant_stack.go:159 — the subnet
  • tenant_stack.go:350 — the servicenetworking connection
  • compute.go:138 — the MIG instance template

So pulumi-defang did not diverge. It copied the legacy design faithfully, and the legacy cleanup.go is the other half of that design: retain, then delete the physical resources out-of-band later. That is what closed PR #461 reproduced.

Two of them have rationales, and they are not the ones I assumed

The connection cannot be deleted by the provider at all. tenant_stack.go:350 carries // TODO: Cannot be removed due to terraform bug: hashicorp/terraform-provider-google#16275. That issue is a 5.x regression — the provider switched from removePeering to deleteConnection, and the delete fails even after the dependent Cloud SQL instances are gone; users report deleting the same connection successfully from the Cloud console. It was closed as a duplicate of #16944, whose resolution was to add a deletion_policy field — i.e. an abandon switch, not a working delete.

This breaks this PR's premise directly. I argued the connection failure was "a race against the Cloud SQL instance delete rather than a permanent state". It is a permanent state. Any stack using managed Postgres or Redis would retry for 24 hours, hit cleanupDeadline, and abandon the VPC — strictly worse than retaining, because it also burns a Cloud Build run every 2 hours for a day first.

The instance-template retain is about updates, not deletes. compute.go:138 says it prevents "The instance_template resource is already being used by" when the template is being updated. That is a replace race on up, not a teardown race on down. Removing it risks breaking redeploys — a failure mode I never evaluated, because I misread what the retain was for.

Where that leaves things

The approach in closed PR #461 — keep the retains, delete the physical resources afterwards — was the correct one, and matches the legacy CD. The adversarial review of this PR was still valuable: the replacement-deployment guard, the deadline-reports-success bug, and the job-retirement holes are real, and several of them apply to #461's shape too.

One genuine improvement available for the connection: servicenetworking.Connection in pulumi-gcp v9 exposes DeletionPolicy, so ABANDON can express "the provider cannot delete this" explicitly, instead of RetainOnDelete implying we merely chose not to.

I am not going to pick the path here after being wrong twice on the facts underneath it. My recommendation is to reopen #461 and carry the review findings into it, but that is worth your call.

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Addresses the seven review findings on PR 462, all of which held up.

The two that mattered most:

- The classification never fired. defang-gcp:index:Project is
  custom:false and is the PARENT of the network and subnet, so a blocked
  child keeps the component in state; counting it rejected the only case
  this feature exists for. Filter on the custom bit instead of naming
  types. While verifying that against a real checkpoint I found the same
  bug once more: providers are custom:true despite not being cloud
  resources, and Pulumi deletes them last, so they survive a failed
  destroy too. Both are now excluded, and the exclusions are asserted
  against a fixture taken from a real checkpoint.

- A scheduled retry could destroy a replacement deployment. The schedule
  points at a project/stack, not at a deployment, and the retry destroyed
  first and classified after: a redeploy landing in the two-hour window
  was deleted. The job now records the URNs it was scheduled to finish
  deleting, and a scheduled run checks the live state BEFORE destroying
  anything -- if it holds anything outside that set, the run stands down
  and retires the job. MVP had an equivalent guard (gcpcd/cleanup.go
  skipped when live state existed) and dropping it was a regression.

The rest:

- Remaining types said what survived, not why. A permission failure, a
  quota outage or a provider regression all left the same types and were
  converted to success. The destroy error must now also carry a known
  in-use marker.
- Reaching the deadline returned nil, reporting a terminal leak as a
  successful down. It now fails, joining the original destroy error.
- The deadline was only checked on the pending path, so any other
  failure in a scheduled run left the cron firing for ever. It is now
  checked on every failure path.
- A failed job deletion was not "one no-op run": Remove() has already
  removed the stack, so the next fire died at SelectStackInlineSource
  before any retirement logic. A scheduled run now treats a missing stack
  as success and retires its job there; when retirement itself fails,
  the message says the job needs deleting by hand rather than implying
  it will resolve itself.
- The peering GlobalAddress is the connection's dependency, so
  ContinueOnError skips it when the connection delete fails and it lands
  in state. It is matched by URN suffix, never by bare type: the
  project's public address is the same type, confirmed in the same
  checkpoint.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T3WmpdY3zc555sNdkY9dzQ
The provider cannot delete a google_service_networking_connection at all
(hashicorp/terraform-provider-google#16275, a 5.x removePeering ->
deleteConnection regression, closed as a duplicate of #16944 whose
resolution added an abandon deletion policy rather than a working
delete). So the retry this branch introduces could never succeed on a
stack with managed Postgres or Redis: it would retry for 24 hours and
then abandon the VPC.

Use upstream's own answer — DeletionPolicy: ABANDON, which skips the
delete call — and remove the peering it leaves behind out of band, from
the cleanup job, before the retry destroy. The peering holds the reserved
range, so without that both the peering address and the network would
keep failing. That is one compute API call rather than a hand-written
teardown of the VPC.

Also records the known gap this design still has: retainOnDelete is
recorded per resource in the checkpoint and `pulumi destroy` does not
re-run the program, so a stack whose state predates this change destroys
"successfully" and leaks its VPC with no failure to classify.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T3WmpdY3zc555sNdkY9dzQ
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Pushed 660f626, and rewrote the description around it.

The Service Networking connection broke the premise of this PR: the provider cannot delete one at all (hashicorp/terraform-provider-google#16275hashicorp/terraform-provider-google#16944, whose resolution added an abandon policy instead of a working delete). A plain delete meant the retry could never succeed on a stack with Postgres or Redis — 24 hours of retries, then an abandoned VPC. It now uses DeletionPolicy: "ABANDON" and removes the leftover peering with one compute call before the retry destroy, because that peering holds the reserved range.

Still a draft, for one decision that is yours rather than mine. retainOnDelete lives in the checkpoint per resource, and pulumi destroy does not re-run the program, so dropping the retains in provider code does nothing for a stack whose state was written by the old code: that down still retains, still succeeds, and still leaks — with no failure to classify, so no retry is scheduled. This fixes every stack deployed or redeployed on this version; older states need one sweep by hand. #461 covers them, at the cost of ~400 lines of hand-written teardown and a walk back through state backups.

Cheap to sweep today (defang-playground-dev is at 2/30 networks), unmeasured in customer projects. Happy to take this out of draft as it stands, or to add a sweep for old states, whichever you prefer.

The peering removal was reading the VPC's name out of the state export.
Nothing needs to be recovered from a snapshot: make it a PeeringCleanup
resource in our own provider instead, and let Pulumi call its delete.

Create is a no-op; Delete calls compute.networks.removePeering — the call
Google's own console uses (hashicorp/terraform-provider-google#18834,
still open) rather than the servicenetworking deleteConnection the
provider calls. That delete cannot be relied on at all: GCP requires
every service instance to be gone first, and producer cleanup lags the
instance delete by up to 4 days for Cloud SQL.

Ordering now comes from the graph rather than from hand-written steps:
the managed instances depend on this resource (SharedInfra.
ServiceNetworking, renamed from ServiceConnection because it now holds
the cleanup resource), which depends on the connection, which holds the
reserved range. So a destroy runs instances, peering, range, subnet, VPC
— the only order GCP accepts. It also fixes a plain `pulumi destroy` for
SDK users, not just this repo's CD.

The CD keeps only what cannot be done inline: the retry for GCP's
documented 1-2h Cloud Run IP-release window. Its compute dependency and
the state-reading helpers are gone with it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pushed 45a53b6: the peering removal is now a PeeringCleanup resource in this provider, not state-reading in the CD.

To answer the question directly — yes, this delete has to go through the Compute API. hashicorp/terraform-provider-google#18834 (open) records that Google's own console uses networks.removePeering while the resource calls servicenetworking.deleteConnection, and a maintainer there offers only two options: abandon state, or restore removePeering. It is also not purely a provider bug: GCP requires every service instance to be gone first, and producer cleanup lags the instance delete by up to 4 days for Cloud SQL, so no retry deadline outlasts it.

What changed since the last push:

  • networkNameFromState and clearAbandonedPeerings are gone. Nothing is recovered from a snapshot; the VPC's name is the resource's own input.
  • Delete order comes from the graph, not from code: instances depend on the cleanup resource → connection → reserved range, so a destroy runs instances → peering → range → subnet → VPC.
  • cloud.google.com/go/compute is out of cd/go.mod again — the compute client lives in the provider now, so the CD adds only scheduler.
  • SharedInfra.ServiceConnectionServiceNetworking, since it carries the cleanup resource rather than the connection.
  • A plain pulumi destroy by an SDK user is fixed too, not just this repo's CD.

Two things for you. The schema gains defang-gcp:index:PeeringCleanup (committed); I could not regenerate the Go SDK on my box — its Pulumi CLI emits v1 sdk/go/... import paths and fails in defang-aws before reaching gcp — so the Regenerate job's auto-commit should produce it. And the old-state gap in the description is unchanged and still yours to call: this fixes every stack deployed or redeployed on this version, and older states need one sweep by hand.

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Superseded by #473, which landed the retain removal. 462's Cloud Scheduler retry and its PeeringCleanup resource are not wanted: the CLI now owns cleanup (DefangLabs/defang#2157).

Two of this PR's premises also turned out to be wrong, measured against real GCP rather than inferred:

  • A servicenetworking peering does not hold the reserved range. The range deletes fine while the peering is ACTIVE.
  • A peering does not block a VPC delete. The VPC deletes with the peering ACTIVE, and GCP removes both the peering and the connection record — no orphan survives.

So networks.removePeering is unnecessary for teardown. What does block a VPC delete is the reserved range itself (which survives the VPC if not deleted first) and, via the subnet, Cloud Run's Direct VPC egress address — measured at 77 minutes, counted from service deletion rather than address creation. That last one cannot be forced: it is held by a serverless.googleapis.com/addressReservations object with no public API.

DeletionPolicy: ABANDON on the connection, which #473 kept, is the part that was load-bearing.

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GCP: add network clean-up job

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