Unable to delete AWS resources created by Tanzu Mission Control after trial expires

Products

• Tanzu Mission Control

Issue/Introduction

This article will help you to clean up your AWS resources when your TMC trial is over.

Symptoms:

You can see automatic recreation of AWS resources after the Tanzu Mission Control (TMC) trial expires. For example, If a user tries to delete NAT gateway, a new NAT gateway gets created automatically.

Cause

You have not deleted the lifecycle Management credential from TMC.

You have clusters and other associated resources running in the account, they continue to exist until you use your cloud provider's tools to remove them.

For more information related to the removal of the lifecycle management credential, refer to Remove a Cluster Lifecycle Management Credential.

Resolution

Delete your clusters from TMC before cleaning up your AWS resources, such as CloudFormation Template, Stack, VPC, and other components.

Workaround:

If you have not deleted the clusters manually from TMC, you can disable the IAM role that was created by TMC if the trial is expired.

It will remove TMC access to AWS. This will prevent TMC from recreating AWS resources.

The following are the AWS roles that need to be deleted from your account in order to decommission the AWS resources:

 

Additional Information

Impact/Risks:
Automatic recreation of AWS resources incurs additional costs.