Precise Resource Replacement with Pulumi State Taint

Pulumi CLI v3.192.0 introduces new commands, pulumi state taint and pulumi state untaint, designed to facilitate resource management by marking resources for replacement when dealing with infrastructure issues like corrupted disks or expired certificates. These commands are especially useful in environments where direct cloud access is restricted, allowing changes to occur through CI/CD pipelines without emergency access requests. The taint command marks a resource for replacement, while the untaint command cancels this action, offering flexibility to preview changes before they are applied. This feature, which emerged from user feedback, provides the same functionality as the pulumi up --replace command but allows for upfront resource marking and integration into automated workflows, making it ideal for situations where arranging replacement flags in CI/CD would be cumbersome. Users are encouraged to try this feature in a development stack to familiarize themselves with the process, with further details available in the v3.192.0 release notes.

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