--skip or --ignore flag to prevent certain resource types from being deleted

[JakeBogie]

Hey Y'all!

Would love to see some sort of --ignore option built in!

Example: Use an input file of resources that leftovers would ignore when running...

leftovers --no-confirm --ignore ~/ignored_resources.txt

cat ignored_resources.txt

"IAM Service Account: projects/PROJECT/serviceAccounts/pks-v1-tform@PROJECT.iam.gserviceaccount.com"
"IAM Service Account: projects/PROJECT/serviceAccounts/410024626587-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com"

Now I can keep some resources around on each of the cloud providers that I don't want deleted but totally nuke the rest of the environment.

[tammersaleh]

I was looking for something similar but was thinking more along the lines of a tag I could put on resources that I didn't want to be removed.

[genevieve]

Hey @jbogie-pivotal & @tammersaleh!

Given the current implementation of leftovers, the easiest/quickest solution would be to allow leftovers --ignore TYPE where TYPE could be anything from the leftovers types list. Would this cover most of your use-cases or would it only be useful if it was on a specific-resource-name basis?

What each IaaS leftovers object bubbles up to the top is a name that has been generated to include pertinent information (for instance, some resources don't have clear names so I append details like tags or network name to help with filtering them.) This means that it would be more difficult to do an "exact match" between resources in a resources.txt and the names in the list.

If y'all have any suggestions, I'm really open to feedback and ideas!

[JakeBogie]

@genevieve doing it by type still wouldn't get around the the challenge I'm facing. @tammersaleh has a great idea. Is it possible to ignore by tag?

I could absolutely change my process to create custom tags for 'special' resources and then anytime I cleanup IaaS just use the --ignore tag-foo functionality to spare the stuff I want to keep around.

[tammersaleh]

Yeah, I'm not sure limiting by resource type would be helpful for my use case either.