Protecting Precious Entities

ConfigHub makes operations, including bulk operations, pretty easy to perform.

This reduces friction in typical cases, but also makes it easy to delete units and spaces corresponding to production infrastructure.

To prevent accidental deletion or destruction, ConfigHub supports delete and destroy gates.

You can add delete and/or destroy gates when creating entities and with update.

For example, to add delete and destroy gates to a database unit with the CLI, you can do:

cub unit update --patch --delete-gate critical --destroy-gate critical --space prod database

You'll also want to protect spaces that are in use:

cub space update --patch --delete-gate used-until-dec25 kubecon25-demo

The string specified as the gate has the same restrictions as label keys: alphanumeric plus -, _, and .. It's useful to provide information regarding the purpose of the gate and/or why/when the entity is needed.

To remove a gate, use -:

cub space update --patch --delete-gate used-until-dec25=- kubecon25-demo
cub space delete --recursive kubecon25-demo