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Closes #1971. Follow-up filed as #2084.

The GCP staging cleanup picked the Cloud SQL instance to delete with --filter="name:cudly-staging" | head -1, deleted it with || true, then ran terraform state rm unconditionally, outside the guard that checked whether anything was found.

The step now lists unfiltered and selects through scripts/select-owned-name.sh using the instance name the Terraform state already publishes, deletes without swallowing the result, and removes state only after a successful delete. The body moved into scripts/delete-owned-cloud-sql-instance.sh, matching the ECR and RDS wrappers, so it can be exercised against stubs.

The issue was wrong on three points, all re-measured

The terraform state rm lines have never removed anything. The resources live under module.database, the addresses were unqualified, and the failure was hidden by 2>/dev/null || true. Verified against a crafted state: the unqualified address exits 1 with "No matching objects found" and changes nothing; the module-qualified one exits 0 and removes. So the "orphaned in state" consequence does not happen today. The damage is the wrongly deleted instance, while the real one stays in state and later blocks terraform destroy on deletion protection.

This is why the corrected addresses are gated on a successful delete. Correcting them makes those removals real for the first time, so they must not run after a failure.

The instance name has no random suffix. It is the fixed string cudly-staging-postgres; the issue's example was AWS-shaped. The over-match is still real: the module's optional replica is cudly-staging-postgres-replica, so every prefix of the real name matches it, plus backup-cudly-staging and any operator-named cudly-staging-*.

No --filter form is a stable equality test, and the current one is a time bomb. Measured against Cloud SDK 456.0.0: name:cudly-staging matches every hyphenated neighbour and prints

WARNING: --filter : operator evaluation is changing for consistency across Google APIs. name:cudly-staging currently matches but will not match in the near future.

Under the new semantics it matches nothing, turning this into a silent skip on a future SDK. name= is case-folded and separately deprecated. So the filter cannot be the guard; the selector is.

A note for anyone re-running that probe: the warning only fires with the full comparison set, not with a smaller subset of names.

What is deliberately not swallowed

|| true is gone from the delete, and the describe-and-sleep polling loop is dropped. gcloud sql instances delete is synchronous, so its exit status is the confirmation, and the loop's 2>/dev/null read any describe failure as "deleted", which is a second swallow.

The PROJECT shape validation moves into the script unchanged.

Regression evidence

Run against origin/main with only the new suite copied in: 38 passed, 23 failed, exit 1, including all three expected failures: the renamed step absent, the shared script missing, and the sweep flagging the old step.

On this branch: 61 passed, 0 failed. Siblings unaffected: ECR 48, RDS 53, tfstate-platform-key 26, all zero failures.

The hostile case is the one from the issue: two instances whose names both contain the prefix, with the wrong one sorting first. The suite asserts exactly one delete of the correct instance, zero state removal when the delete fails, and that state removal appears only after a successful delete in the call log.

The gcloud stub exits 99 if any argument starts with --filter. That is deliberate: it makes filter-based selection unreintroducible without a test failure, rather than trusting a future author to remember why it was removed.

Scope

The Service Networking peering block in the same step has a related but distinct defect: its state address is module-qualified, so it genuinely removes state before a swallowed delete. Filed as #2084 rather than folded in here. It is lower severity because a leaked peering is not billed and makes terraform destroy fail loudly.

Only one other place in any workflow had this selection shape, and it is that block. Everything else either matches exactly or removes a lock file rather than a resource.

Verification

Check Result
new suite, pre-fix on origin/main 38 pass, 23 fail, exit 1
new suite, this branch 61 pass, 0 fail
ECR, RDS, tfstate-platform-key suites 48, 53, 26; zero failures
shellcheck on the delete script and selector silent, exit 0
pre-commit run --files on both workflows all hooks pass or skip, actionlint and zizmor included

cleanup-staging is workflow_dispatch-only and its GCP job cannot run from a PR, so stubbed end-to-end plus static wiring is the verification, as it was for the sibling guards.

Noted while implementing

Editing the selector's header comment tripped git-secrets' generic 40-character pattern: column-aligning a wrapped table row produced a run of over 40 consecutive non-alphanumeric characters. That is the inverted-pattern false positive tracked in #2030, hit incidentally. Resolved by not column-aligning that line. Worth knowing, because a differently-worded comment can hit it again.


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  • Bug Fixes

    • Cloud SQL cleanup now deletes only the exact instance owned by the staging environment.
    • Cleanup failures are surfaced instead of being silently ignored.
    • Terraform state is removed only after successful instance cleanup.
    • Invalid infrastructure output is now reported instead of being treated as an already-completed cleanup.
  • Tests

    • Added automated safeguards covering instance selection, deletion behavior, error handling, and workflow configuration.
    • CI now blocks merges when Cloud SQL cleanup safety checks fail.

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…fore destroy

The GCP staging cleanup step selected the Cloud SQL instance to delete with
`gcloud sql instances list --filter="name:cudly-staging" | head -1`, deleted
it with `|| true`, then ran three `terraform state rm` calls against
root-level resource addresses regardless of the delete's outcome.

The filter over-matched: substring `:` matched a read replica, an
operator-named instance and a `backup-cudly-staging` name, and gcloud warns
that `:` evaluation is changing such that this exact filter will match
NOTHING on a future SDK. No `--filter` form is a stable equality test, so
selection now lists instances unfiltered and compares them in the shell via
the existing scripts/select-owned-name.sh (already used by the AWS ECR and
RDS destroy paths).

The three `state rm` addresses were also wrong: the resources live under
`module.database`, not at root, so those commands have never removed
anything (measured: a root-level address exits 1 "No matching objects
found"). Correcting the addresses makes the removal real for the first time,
so it now runs only after a successful delete, and neither the delete nor the
state rm swallows a failure anymore.

The step's body moves into scripts/delete-owned-cloud-sql-instance.sh so it
can be exercised against stubbed gcloud/terraform in scripts/test-cloud-sql-delete-scope.sh
(added in the next commit), mirroring the ECR and RDS scripts.

Closes #1971

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Adds scripts/test-cloud-sql-delete-scope.sh, a third sibling to the ECR and
RDS selection-scope suites (not an extension of either: different command,
different stub, different terraform output key, and a state-write ordering
assertion neither AWS suite needs).

Asserts, in both directions: the owned instance is still selected out of a
hostile listing where the wrong candidate sorts first (the issue's exact
scenario), every near-miss name is refused, the destroy step and the shared
script are wired together, nothing swallows a failure, and the full set of
workflows and scripts is swept for any `gcloud sql instances delete` site
that does not pipe through the selector. The behavioural section runs the
script end to end against stubbed gcloud and terraform, so a filter
reintroduced into the listing call, a failed delete that is not swallowed,
and state removal happening only after a successful delete are all asserted
as behaviour, not only as text.

scripts/lib/code-scan-awk.sh gains the new suite to its exclusion list, since
it carries the dangerous command and the selector as fixture data and would
otherwise flag itself. ci.yml wires the new suite as an always-on job and
adds it to ci-success.needs, since ci-success allowlists only its needs.

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The GCP cleanup workflow now reads the Cloud SQL instance name from Terraform state, selects it by exact equality, deletes it without suppressing failures, and removes related state only after successful deletion. CI adds regression checks and makes them merge-gating.

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Cloud SQL cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Owned instance deletion and selection
scripts/delete-owned-cloud-sql-instance.sh, scripts/select-owned-name.sh
The new script validates inputs, reads the Terraform-owned instance, performs exact selection, deletes synchronously, and removes module-qualified state resources after success.
Workflow integration
.github/workflows/cleanup-staging.yml
The destroy workflow delegates Cloud SQL cleanup to the new script instead of using substring matching and unconditional state removal.
Regression coverage and CI gate
scripts/test-cloud-sql-delete-scope.sh, scripts/lib/code-scan-awk.sh, .github/workflows/ci.yml
The suite validates selection, failures, ordering, wiring, and unguarded delete scans. CI runs the suite and requires it for ci-success.
Related failure propagation fixes
scripts/disable-owned-rds-deletion-protection.sh, scripts/force-delete-owned-ecr-repo.sh
The scripts now propagate failures from invalid Terraform or jq output instead of treating them as zero outputs.

Priority: ⬆️ High

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: High

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7565f

Cloud SQL cleanup now safely targets the Terraform-owned instance and preserves state on deletion failure. A rare Terraform state-removal failure can still leave residual state entries that require manual cleanup before a later run completes.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CleanupWorkflow
  participant DeleteScript
  participant Terraform
  participant GcloudSQL
  CleanupWorkflow->>DeleteScript: pass state directory and project
  DeleteScript->>Terraform: read database_instance_name
  DeleteScript->>GcloudSQL: list instances without filter
  DeleteScript->>DeleteScript: select exact owned name
  DeleteScript->>GcloudSQL: delete selected instance
  DeleteScript->>Terraform: remove related state resources
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: restricting Cloud SQL cleanup to the instance owned by staging Terraform state.
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163-168: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Consider making the state-removal loop resumable.

The loop aborts on the first terraform state rm that exits non-zero. Two consequences follow.

If the second or third removal fails for a transient backend reason, the instance is already deleted and one address is already removed. A re-run then reaches Line 151 and exits 0, because the instance is no longer in the listing. The two remaining addresses stay in state, and terraform destroy tries to manage resources whose instance is gone.

If any of the three addresses is already absent from state, state rm exits 1 with "No matching objects found", as the header records. The step then fails although the delete succeeded.

Note the constraint from the suite: assert_nothing_swallowed rejects || true and 2>/dev/null anywhere in this file. A fix must therefore distinguish "address absent" from a real error explicitly, for example by checking terraform -chdir="$STATE_DIR" state list once and removing only the addresses it reports.

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In `@scripts/delete-owned-cloud-sql-instance.sh` around lines 163 - 168, The
state-removal loop must be resumable and tolerate already-absent addresses
without hiding real Terraform errors. In the cleanup flow around the ADDR loop,
obtain the current state listing once, remove only addresses present in that
listing, and preserve non-zero failures from actual state-removal operations so
transient errors remain visible.
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In `@scripts/delete-owned-cloud-sql-instance.sh`:
- Around line 163-168: The state-removal loop must be resumable and tolerate
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Two findings from adversarial review of #2085.

The gcloud stub in test-cloud-sql-delete-scope.sh denylisted `--filter`
specifically, so `--limit=1` (or `--page-size`, `--sort-by`, `--uri`,
`--flags-file`) walked straight past it the same way `head -1` used to, and
real gcloud 456 honours all of those. Converted the stub's `list` branch to
an allowlist of the exact argument vector the script sends, so any of those
flags now fails the suite as behaviour instead of passing unnoticed.

`if [[ "$(jq -r 'length' <<<"$OUTPUTS_JSON")" -eq 0 ]]` is fail-open: a jq
failure (non-JSON on stdout from a broken `terraform output`) substitutes an
empty string, and `[[ "" -eq 0 ]]` evaluates true, so the script reports
"already destroyed" and exits 0 without ever calling gcloud. Moved the jq
call to its own assignment so `set -e` surfaces its exit status instead of
letting the `eq` comparison mask it. The same line existed verbatim in the
ECR and RDS sibling scripts; fixed all three rather than only the one this PR
touches, since fixing one implies the other two were considered and judged
fine. Added a suite case asserting a terraform stub that prints non-JSON
fails loudly with no gcloud call.

Also fixes a pre-existing git-secrets false positive in
disable-owned-rds-deletion-protection.sh: its output-state table separator
row was a 60+ character run of only `-` and `|`, which trips the generic
40-character secret-shaped-string pattern once this file is staged again for
any reason. Replaced the `|` column dividers with `+` on that one row, which
breaks the run without changing the table's readability.

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