So you’re working on a development account, and Terraform is stuck in a cycle, not allowing you to easily destroy the remaining resources? Enter the world of nuke CLIs !
cloud-nuke
At the time of writing, I used version v0.1.16
From Gruntwork, written in Go, will not destroy as many objects as aws-nuke; has been around since May 2017
If you’re using ~/.aws/credentials , choose (wisely!) the account alias (myenv-dev in my case) in there and then:
1 | AWS_PROFILE=myenv-dev ~/Downloads/cloud-nuke_darwin_amd64 aws |
But actually, you’ll probably want to narrow the scope down to a single region; so you’d have to specify it in the command line:
1 | AWS_PROFILE=myenv-dev ~/Downloads/cloud-nuke_darwin_amd64 aws --region=eu-west-1 |
If you call it with the list argument, aws --list-resource-types you’ll get a list of what resources are supported for deletion:
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aws-nuke
At the time of writing, I used version v2.14.0
From rebuy.de, written in Ruby, will destroy many objects, if not all, supports filters, requires a config file; has been around since June 2016.
You’ll need to provide a config file; a minimal one can be something like this nuke.yml file
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | regions:- eu-west-1- global # for resources not bound to a specific region, such as Route53 zones for exampleaccount-blacklist:- "111222333444" # production accounts: "999888777666": {} # aws-nuke-example |
If you’re using ~/.aws/credentials , choose (wisely!) the account alias (myenv-dev in my case) in there and then:
1 | AWS_PROFILE=myenv-dev ~/Downloads/aws-nuke-v2.14.0-darwin-amd64 --config nuke.yml |
If you call it with the list argument, resource-types , you’ll get a list of what resources are supported for deletion:
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Conclusion
Well, if you need to delete everything and be able to filter some resources out, then I guess aws-nukeis the way to go!
Published on Java Code Geeks with permission by Anthony Dahanne, partner at our JCG program. See the original article here: Destroy AWS resources: Cloud-Nuke or AWS-Nuke? Opinions expressed by Java Code Geeks contributors are their own. |
It is nearly 3 years since this was written. It would be very much worthwhile to have an updated version.