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Three destroy steps selected RDS instances with starts_with(DBInstanceIdentifier,'cudly-dev') or the 'cudly-staging' equivalent and stripped deletion protection from every match. That prefix also matches cudly-dev-prod-mirror, cudly-dev-<hex>-postgres-replica and any operator-named instance sharing it, and the staging prefix additionally spans both staging states, so either cleanup job unprotected the other's database. Deletion protection is the last line of defence on a database: removing it from an instance the workflow does not own does not delete anything by itself, it leaves that database exposed to the next destroy that does match it. Selection now resolves the owned identifier from `terraform output` on the state being torn down and compares by exact equality, using the selector added for #1592 rather than a second implementation of the same idea. The selector was ECR-specific in name only, so it is now scripts/select-owned-name.sh and both resources share one comparison; two copies would have to be hardened in lockstep, which is the failure mode that turned #1592 into #1820 and then this. The identifier is published by a new database_instance_identifier output, since aws_db_instance.main.identifier carries local.stack_name's random suffix and no prefix describes it uniquely. Nothing is swallowed. `2>/dev/null` on the listing made a failed call indistinguishable from an account with no instances, and `|| true` on the modify reported success after a failed strip, so the step reported success and `terraform destroy` then failed downstream on an instance that was still protected. A state that publishes outputs but not the identifier now fails with the remedy named, rather than falling back to the prefix this removes. All three sites are wired, not the two that are most visible: leaving one behind would have destroy-fargate-dev.yml select ECR by equality and RDS by prefix in the same job. The guard suite asserts both directions, because a selector that matches nothing passes every refusal assertion while leaving the destroy broken: a non-zero match count is asserted before any absence. Each assertion is proven to bite by mutation, against a copy of the tree, and each was required to produce its specific FAIL line since a syntax error also exits non-zero. Reverting any one of the three sites to a prefix loop fails, including reverting only the second staging site while the first stays wired; a selector that matches by prefix fails on the near-miss table; one that matches nothing fails on the count; re-adding `|| true` fails; keeping the selector as a live call while the modify reads the raw listing fails, which is the case a "the selector is still called" check waves through; and renaming or repointing either terraform output fails. The ECR suite was refactored onto the shared scan helpers, so reverting an ECR site and reintroducing a prefix filter in the ECR script were both re-confirmed to fail.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change replaces broad AWS resource matching with exact Terraform-owned selection. It adds shared RDS cleanup and selector scripts, exposes RDS identifiers through Terraform, updates destroy workflows, and adds repository-wide validation to CI. ChangesOwnership-scoped destructive cleanup
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The workflows now restrict deletion-protection changes to the exact database owned by the state being destroyed, with failures surfaced instead of silently ignored. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant TerraformState
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TerraformState->>CleanupScript: Provide database_instance_identifier
CleanupScript->>AWSRDS: List RDS instance identifiers
AWSRDS-->>CleanupScript: Return account instances
CleanupScript->>Selector: Filter by exact owned identifier
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CleanupScript->>AWSRDS: Disable deletion protection
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scripts/in the sweep instead of naming two files.The sweep globs every workflow, but under
scripts/it inspects onlydisable-owned-rds-deletion-protection.shandselect-owned-name.sh. A new script that runsaws rds modify-db-instancewithout the selector passes this suite. That is the same "the guard did not reach the sibling site" mode the header describes. The comment in.github/workflows/ci.yml(lines 796-797) also states that nothing else underscripts/runs the command unguarded, which this call does not check.Sweep
scripts/*.shand exclude the two guard suites by name, since they carry the command and the selector as fixture data.♻️ Sketch of a globbed sweep set
-assert_sweep "every 'aws rds modify-db-instance' site in .github/workflows and scripts/ pipes through the selector" \ - "$WORKFLOW_DIR" "" "$UNPROTECT_SCRIPT" "$SELECT" +# scripts/ is globbed so a NEW script cannot add an unguarded modify site +# unseen. The two guard suites are excluded because they quote both the command +# and the selector as fixture data. +SWEPT_SCRIPTS=() +shopt -s nullglob +for candidate in "${SCRIPT_DIR}"/*.sh "${SCRIPT_DIR}"/lib/*.sh; do + case "$(basename "$candidate")" in + test-rds-deletion-protection-scope.sh | test-ecr-delete-selection.sh) continue ;; + esac + SWEPT_SCRIPTS+=("$candidate") +done +shopt -u nullglob + +assert_sweep "every 'aws rds modify-db-instance' site in .github/workflows and scripts/ pipes through the selector" \ + "$WORKFLOW_DIR" "" "${SWEPT_SCRIPTS[@]}"🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@scripts/test-rds-deletion-protection-scope.sh`:
- Around line 502-503: Update the assert_sweep invocation in the test to scan
all scripts/*.sh files while excluding disable-owned-rds-deletion-protection.sh
and select-owned-name.sh, which contain fixture data. Preserve the existing
workflow sweep and selector validation so newly added scripts invoking aws rds
modify-db-instance must also be checked.
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The five states `terraform output -json` can be in were measured rather than
reasoned about, because they do not behave alike. Measured on terraform 1.10.0,
the version TF_VERSION pins in the workflows that call this, and on 1.14.4;
identical on both. It exits 0 in all five, so the exit code carries no
information and every branch has to be driven by the payload:
no state file | {} | jq length 0 | jq -er exit 1
state, no outputs | {} | jq length 0 | jq -er exit 1
key absent | {...} w/o key | jq length>0 | jq -er exit 1
key present, null | {"value":null} | jq length 1 | jq -er exit 1
key present, "" | {"value":""} | jq length 1 | jq -er exit 0, ""
The last row is the trap: an empty string is neither null nor false, so `jq -er`
accepts it and hands back a valid-looking empty identifier. Nothing was ever
unprotected by it, since the selector refuses an empty owned name with exit 2
and that propagates through pipefail, but it got there only after
`describe-db-instances` had already run, it announced "This state owns RDS
instance ''" on the way, and the error named the selector's contract rather than
the operator's problem.
It now has its own check, before anything is announced as owned and before any
AWS call. The two causes get distinct messages because they need different
fixes: an absent or null key means the state predates the output and wants an
apply, while a present-but-empty key means the output is there and resolved to
nothing, which an apply will not fix and which wants the state inspected before
anything is destroyed.
The behaviour these branches describe was previously verified only outside the
tree, so the suite now runs the script end to end against stubbed terraform and
aws, with every AWS invocation logged so the assertions are about WHICH instance
was unprotected rather than only about an exit code: the golden path issues
exactly one modify and it names the owned instance, each of the four hostile
neighbours keeps its protection, all five output payloads take their stated
branch with no AWS call on the failing ones, and a failed listing and a failed
modify each fail the step. That moves the half of #1821 that is about not
swallowing failures from a claim into a CI assertion. 33 cases to 51.
Removing the new guard is confirmed to fail by the specific behaviour assertion
rather than by a bare non-zero exit.
…d ones The sweep globbed .github/workflows but named only the two scripts already known to be guarded, so a NEW script running `aws rds modify-db-instance` without the selector passed the suite. That is the defect these suites exist to catch, one level up: the guard reached the sites someone remembered to list and not the sibling site nobody did, which is how #1592 became #1820 and then #1821. It also left ci.yml asserting that nothing else under scripts/ runs the command unguarded, which nothing actually checked. scripts/ and scripts/lib/ are now globbed. The two guard suites are excluded by basename, since each carries its dangerous command and the selector as fixture data and inside awk programs and would otherwise report itself as a violation. The swept set goes from 2 scripts to 23. Fixed on the ECR suite as well as the RDS one it was raised against. Fixing one and leaving the other is the same asymmetry, and the ECR sweep had the identical narrow list. An empty swept set has no violations, so two assertions stand in front of the sweep: the set is non-empty, and it contains the script that actually runs the command. `nullglob` keeps an unmatched pattern from expanding to its own literal text, which would otherwise become a nonexistent path that makes the sweep bail out early and report a clean result for files it never opened. The set builder is shared rather than copied into both suites, for the reason the selector is: two copies of it drift, and a sweep that quietly stops recognising sites fails open. Proven by six mutations, each against a copy and each required to produce its specific FAIL line: a new unguarded script under scripts/ is flagged and named, so is one under scripts/lib/, so is an unguarded ECR script; pointing the glob at a directory with no scripts fails the non-empty assertion; dropping nullglob fails the containment assertion, with the literal unexpanded pattern visible in the report; and widening the exclusion list to cover the guarded script fails containment and then reports finding no site at all.
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Addressing the nitpick on The diagnosis was exactly right, including the part that makes it more than a tidiness issue: naming the two scripts already known to be guarded reproduces, inside the guard, the same "the check reached the listed sites and not the sibling nobody listed" mode that turned #1592 into #1820 and then #1821. And it left the What changed (committed locally, lands on the next push to this branch):
Coverage went up rather than staying flat: ECR suite 46 -> 48, RDS suite 51 -> 53. Proven to bite, six mutations, each against a copy of the tree and each required to produce its specific
The first is the case described in the review. The The 17 earlier mutations were re-run against the changed ECR suite and all still fail by name. The sketch in the review was used as a starting point and derived rather than pasted, with |
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Pushed What landed The Applied to the ECR suite as well, which had the identical narrow list. Fixing the RDS sweep and leaving the ECR one would be the same "the guard did not reach the sibling site" mode, one level up again. The set builder is shared ( An empty swept set has no violations either, so two assertions stand in front of the sweep: the set is non-empty, and it contains the script that actually runs the command. The Coverage went up rather than staying flat: ECR suite 46 -> 48, RDS suite 51 -> 53. Proven to bite, six mutations, each against a copy of the tree and each required to produce its specific
The first row is the case described in the review. The The 17 earlier mutations were re-run against the changed ECR suite and all still fail by name, so the #1592/#1820 hardening this inherited is intact. Also on this head, from The review's sketch was used as a starting point and derived rather than pasted, keeping |
Fargate rollback wrote the Lambda Terraform state rollback.yml's rollback-aws-fargate job built its backend key from the Lambda state namespace, writing github-<env>/terraform.tfstate where every other Fargate writer uses github-fargate-<env>/. A Fargate rollback therefore initialised against the state the Lambda deploy owns and applied compute_platform=fargate into it: against a populated Lambda state that is a platform swap of the live Lambda stack recorded in the wrong file, while the real Fargate state is left describing resources nobody reconciles. The Lambda rollback job uses the same key correctly, so both rollback jobs were writing one state file. The key now matches the platform the job applies. Enumerated rather than sampled: all 17 workflow files were swept for backend keys, compute_platform vars and concurrency groups, and every writer cross-read in both directions. Exactly one defective site, not two. The adjacent sites that are not instances are recorded in the PR: the Azure blob has no platform split, GCP uses prefix rather than key, and init-backend.sh emits an unprefixed key. Blast radius, checked separately because a fix does not answer it: rollback.yml has never run. The empty run list was validated in the other direction by running the same query against ci.yml and getting rows back, so it means no runs rather than a wrong filter. The corruption is latent, nothing needs terraform state mv, and repointing the key strands nothing. Not closed: reading the state object in S3 needs credentials unavailable here, and a hand-run apply from a laptop would leave no trace in the repo. A guard makes the pairing durable, since reading carefully once does not survive the next edit. It sweeps the workflow directory and every script, asserts the swept set is non-empty and contains the known site, and fails if a job's backend key disagrees with the platform it applies. Review found two ways that guard failed open, both fixed. A job with the correct platform and key but no concurrency group at all passed, because the group was only checked when non-empty. Absence was read as an exemption rather than as a missing requirement, and such a job can apply shared state with no workflow-level serialization. It is now two independent conditions rather than an if/else on a non-empty group. build_swept_scripts globbed only scripts/*.sh and scripts/lib/*.sh, so a file at scripts/aws/rollback.sh was never opened while all three suites reported coverage of every script under scripts/. Fixed in the shared helper rather than locally, because the RDS and ECR guards call the same function: mutation confirmed both of those suites, as merged on main, pass with a nested offender present, so they have carried this blind spot since #1852. Discovery uses find -print0 with read -d '' rather than a ** glob, since globstar is bash 4 and these scripts run on the bash 3.2 that ships with macOS, with sort -z for deterministic order and process substitution so the array survives the loop. Verified: mutations run against copies of the tree, each required to produce its specific FAIL line since a syntax error also exits non-zero. With a nested offender present all three suites now fail naming it, and with it removed all three go green. ECR 48/48 and RDS 53/53 still pass against the recursive helper. Stated rather than glossed: scripts/ contains no nested *.sh today, so recursive and non-recursive discovery return a byte-identical 26 files. The recursion fix is preventive, and the recursion assertion runs against a fixture tree, because asserting recursion where no nested file exists would pass without testing anything. Not verified: no terraform apply, init against a real backend, or destroy was run, and neither destroy workflow was dispatched. Deferred: #1856, database-migration.yml runs a bare terraform init with no -backend-config in three jobs and swallows the real terraform error before reading terraform output.
…oy (#1852) Destroy steps stripped RDS deletion protection by identifier prefix Three destroy steps selected instances with DBInstances[?starts_with(DBInstanceIdentifier,'cudly-dev')] or the 'cudly-staging' equivalent and removed deletion protection from every match. That prefix also matches cudly-dev-prod-mirror, a cudly-dev-<hex>-postgres-replica and any operator-named instance sharing it, and the staging prefix spans both staging states, so either cleanup job unprotected the other's database. Removing protection deletes nothing by itself; it leaves a database this workflow does not own exposed to the next destroy that does match. Same over-matching class as #1592 and #1820, on a resource where the guard being weakened is the last one. Selection now resolves the owned identifier from terraform output on the state being torn down and compares by exact equality. The identifier is published by a new database_instance_identifier output, because aws_db_instance.main.identifier carries local.stack_name's random suffix and no prefix describes it uniquely. The #1592 selector was ECR-specific in name only, so it is now scripts/select-owned-name.sh and both resources share one comparison. Two copies of a security-critical comparison have to be hardened in lockstep, and a guard landing on one resource but not its sibling is exactly the recurrence that produced #1592, then #1820, then this. Nothing is swallowed. 2>/dev/null on the listing made a failed call indistinguishable from an account with no instances, and || true on the modify reported success after a failed strip, so the step passed and terraform destroy then failed downstream on a still-protected instance. The five states terraform output -json can be in were measured on both terraform 1.10.0 and 1.14.4 rather than assumed. It exits 0 in all five, so the exit code carries no information and every branch is driven by the payload. The trap is a key present but empty: an empty string is neither null nor false, so jq -er accepts it and returns a valid-looking empty identifier. Absent-or-null and present-but-empty now get distinct errors, because they need distinct remedies: the first means the state predates the output and wants an apply, the second means the output exists and resolved to nothing, which an apply will not fix. Verified: RDS 53 of 53 and ECR 48 of 48. Coverage came out ahead of the 46 the ECR suite carried before the rename. Mutations ran against a copy of the tree, each required to produce its specific FAIL line since a syntax error also exits non-zero: removing either staging call site, reverting a site to a prefix loop, removing the dev site, dropping the selector stage, and keeping the selector as a live call while the modify reads the raw listing. Mutations E1 and E2 re-prove the inherited ECR assertions still bite after the move. Run on bash 3.2 and BWK awk locally, stricter than CI's bash 5 and mawk, and green on the runner. The sweep that catches unnamed sites now globs both directories instead of naming two known-guarded files, since a sweep that only opens files someone remembered to list has the same blind spot the suites exist to catch. The swept set is asserted non-empty and asserted to contain the script that runs the command, so "no violations" cannot mean "opened nothing". Operational note: a state whose last apply predates this does not carry database_instance_identifier yet, so the first destroy dispatched before its next deploy stops at that step with the remedy named. That is the loud failure this issue asked for rather than a silent prefix fallback. Not verified: nothing ran against live AWS. No terraform apply or destroy, and neither destroy workflow was dispatched, so the real describe-db-instances payload and modify-db-instance response are covered by stubs. Which of the three live states currently publish the new output could not be checked without deploy credentials. Deferred: #1851 and #1838 remain open from earlier work in this area.
Fargate rollback wrote the Lambda Terraform state rollback.yml's rollback-aws-fargate job built its backend key from the Lambda state namespace, writing github-<env>/terraform.tfstate where every other Fargate writer uses github-fargate-<env>/. A Fargate rollback therefore initialised against the state the Lambda deploy owns and applied compute_platform=fargate into it: against a populated Lambda state that is a platform swap of the live Lambda stack recorded in the wrong file, while the real Fargate state is left describing resources nobody reconciles. The Lambda rollback job uses the same key correctly, so both rollback jobs were writing one state file. The key now matches the platform the job applies. Enumerated rather than sampled: all 17 workflow files were swept for backend keys, compute_platform vars and concurrency groups, and every writer cross-read in both directions. Exactly one defective site, not two. The adjacent sites that are not instances are recorded in the PR: the Azure blob has no platform split, GCP uses prefix rather than key, and init-backend.sh emits an unprefixed key. Blast radius, checked separately because a fix does not answer it: rollback.yml has never run. The empty run list was validated in the other direction by running the same query against ci.yml and getting rows back, so it means no runs rather than a wrong filter. The corruption is latent, nothing needs terraform state mv, and repointing the key strands nothing. Not closed: reading the state object in S3 needs credentials unavailable here, and a hand-run apply from a laptop would leave no trace in the repo. A guard makes the pairing durable, since reading carefully once does not survive the next edit. It sweeps the workflow directory and every script, asserts the swept set is non-empty and contains the known site, and fails if a job's backend key disagrees with the platform it applies. Review found two ways that guard failed open, both fixed. A job with the correct platform and key but no concurrency group at all passed, because the group was only checked when non-empty. Absence was read as an exemption rather than as a missing requirement, and such a job can apply shared state with no workflow-level serialization. It is now two independent conditions rather than an if/else on a non-empty group. build_swept_scripts globbed only scripts/*.sh and scripts/lib/*.sh, so a file at scripts/aws/rollback.sh was never opened while all three suites reported coverage of every script under scripts/. Fixed in the shared helper rather than locally, because the RDS and ECR guards call the same function: mutation confirmed both of those suites, as merged on main, pass with a nested offender present, so they have carried this blind spot since #1852. Discovery uses find -print0 with read -d '' rather than a ** glob, since globstar is bash 4 and these scripts run on the bash 3.2 that ships with macOS, with sort -z for deterministic order and process substitution so the array survives the loop. Verified: mutations run against copies of the tree, each required to produce its specific FAIL line since a syntax error also exits non-zero. With a nested offender present all three suites now fail naming it, and with it removed all three go green. ECR 48/48 and RDS 53/53 still pass against the recursive helper. Stated rather than glossed: scripts/ contains no nested *.sh today, so recursive and non-recursive discovery return a byte-identical 26 files. The recursion fix is preventive, and the recursion assertion runs against a fixture tree, because asserting recursion where no nested file exists would pass without testing anything. Not verified: no terraform apply, init against a real backend, or destroy was run, and neither destroy workflow was dispatched. Deferred: #1856, database-migration.yml runs a bare terraform init with no -backend-config in three jobs and swallows the real terraform error before reading terraform output.
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Closes #1821
What
Three destroy steps queried RDS with
starts_with(DBInstanceIdentifier,'cudly-dev')or the'cudly-staging'equivalent and stripped deletion protection from every match, with both the listing and the modify swallowed by2>/dev/null || true.destroy-fargate-dev.ymlcleanup-staging.ymlcleanup-staging.ymlAll three now call
scripts/disable-owned-rds-deletion-protection.sh, which resolves the owned identifier fromterraform outputon the state being torn down and compares by exact equality.Why it matters
The prefix also matches
cudly-dev-prod-mirror,cudly-dev-<hex>-postgres-replicaand any operator-named instance sharing it. The staging prefix additionally spans both staging states, whose instances are eachcudly-staging-<random_id.suffix.hex>-postgres, so either cleanup job unprotected the other's database.Deletion protection is the last line of defence on a database. Removing it from an instance the workflow does not own does not delete anything by itself: it leaves that database exposed to the next destroy that does match it.
Wiring only two of the three sites would leave
destroy-fargate-dev.ymlselecting ECR by equality and RDS by prefix in the same job, which is the asymmetry that turned #1592 into #1820 and then into this.How
Shared selector, not a second copy. The selector added for #1592 was ECR-specific in name only: its contract is "print the stdin lines byte-identical to the owned name". It is now
scripts/select-owned-name.shand both resources share it. Two copies of a security-critical comparison would have to be hardened in lockstep, which is the exact failure mode this issue chain is made of.scripts/test-select-ecr-repos-to-delete.shmoved with it toscripts/test-ecr-delete-selection.sh, matching its CI job name.Resolving the owned identifier.
aws_db_instance.main.identifieris${local.stack_name}-postgres, andlocal.stack_namecarries arandom_idsuffix, so no literal list can be hardcoded and no prefix describes it uniquely. A newdatabase_instance_identifieroutput publishes it, fed by a newinstance_identifieroutput on the database module.A state last applied before this PR does not publish that output yet. That case fails with the remedy named (re-apply, or unprotect the one instance by hand) rather than falling back to the prefix, which is the only fallback available.
Nothing is swallowed.
2>/dev/nullon the listing made a failed call indistinguishable from an account with no instances, so the step did nothing and reported success;|| trueon the modify did the same after a failed strip.terraform destroythen failed downstream on an instance that was still protected. "Already gone" needs no swallowing: the instance is absent from the listing, the selector prints nothing and exits 0, and the loop body never runs.Shared scan helpers. The awk functions that tell code which RUNS a command from prose which mentions it moved to
scripts/lib/code-scan-awk.sh, shared by both guard suites for the same lockstep reason.Operational note: an apply must precede the first destroy
Read before merging.
database_instance_identifieris added by this PR, and a Terraform output only materializes in state at the next apply. On any environment whose state was last applied before this merges,terraform output -jsonreturns a payload without that key, and the new step stops there.That is deliberate (it refuses to fall back to the identifier prefix this PR removes) and it is safe (it fails before calling any AWS API, so nothing is unprotected), but it means a destroy dispatched in the window between this merging and that environment's next deploy will fail at this step. The deploy workflows apply on merges to
main, so each environment self-heals at its next deploy.The error names the remedy: re-apply the state, or remove deletion protection on that one instance by hand, then re-run the destroy.
The five
terraform output -jsonshapes were measured on terraform 1.10.0 (the pinnedTF_VERSION) and 1.14.4, identical on both. It exits 0 in all five, so the exit code carries no information and every branch reads the payload:{}{"value":""}The last row is a trap worth naming: an empty string is neither
nullnorfalse, sojq -eraccepts it. It gets its own check and its own message, because its remedy differs from the row above.Verification
scripts/test-rds-deletion-protection-scope.sh(53 cases, new CI jobrds-deletion-protection-scope, added to theci-successneeds list so it gates). The ECR suite is at 48.The suite also runs the script end to end against stubbed
terraformandaws, logging every AWS invocation, so "a failed strip is not swallowed" and "exactly one instance is unprotected, and it is the owned one" are asserted as behaviour rather than as text. And the unguarded-call sweep globsscripts/andscripts/lib/rather than naming known files (23 scripts, up from 2), with the swept set asserted non-empty and asserted to contain the script that runs the command, so "no violations" cannot mean "opened nothing". Both directions, positive first: a non-zero match count out of a hostile listing is asserted before any absence, since a selector that matches nothing passes every refusal assertion while leaving the destroy broken.Refused near-misses include
cudly-dev-prod-mirror,cudly-dev-1a2b3c4d-replica,cudly-dev-1a2b3c4d-postgres-replica, the operator-namedcudly-dev-dba-scratch, and each staging state's instance against the other's.Every assertion is proven to bite by mutation, each against a copy of the tree, and each was required to produce its specific FAIL line, since a syntax error also exits non-zero:
destroy-fargate-dev.yml does not have exactly 1 step(s) namedcleanup-staging.yml does not have exactly 2 step(s) namedrefused: cudly-dev-1a2b3c4d-postgres-replicaexpected exactly 1 selected instance|| truere-added to the modifysuppresses an error on the line(s) aboveno longer reads the owned identifier from 'terraform output'the aws environment publishes database_instance_identifierthe aws database module publishes the real aws_db_instance identifiercleanup-staging.yml does not have exactly 2 step(s) namedno longer reads the owned name from 'terraform output'behaviour: an empty identifier exits 1 without calling awsscripts/orscripts/lib/nullglobdroppedThe last two re-confirm the just-landed ECR guard still bites after being refactored onto the shared helpers. Its suite is unchanged at 46 passing.
The static assertions cannot show that the pipeline unprotects the right instance, so the script was also run end to end against stubbed
terraformandaws(15 scenarios): out of a hostile tab-separated listing exactly onemodify-db-instanceis issued and it names the owned instance, each neighbour keeps its protection, a state with no outputs exits 0 without calling AWS, a state missing the output exits 1 with the remedy, an absent instance exits 0 modifying nothing, and a failed listing or a failed modify each fail the step.shellcheck -xclean at warning severity on everything added, run on bash 3.2.terraform validateandterraform fmt -checkpass.actionlintreports nothing new (the two SC2086 infos on the pre-existingPost statusstep are unchanged frommain).Not verified
The workflows were not dispatched and no
terraform apply/destroywas run: they destroy live AWS staging state. The AWS-side behaviour is covered by the stub scenarios above, not by a live call.