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ASF GitHub Bot commented on CLOUDSTACK-8580: -------------------------------------------- Github user borisroman closed the pull request at: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/589 > Users should be able to expunge VMs > ----------------------------------- > > Key: CLOUDSTACK-8580 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-8580 > Project: CloudStack > Issue Type: Improvement > Security Level: Public(Anyone can view this level - this is the > default.) > Reporter: Lennert den Teuling > Priority: Minor > > When automating deployments of CloudStack (with for example Terraform) there > are situations where VMs get recreated with the same name (and hostname). > When VMs are destroyed by a user, the name will be reserved on the network > until the VM truly gets expunged (depending on expunge.delay). Because of > this, some automation tools cannot work because a new deployment with the > same name gives an error. > Users do not have the ability to directly expunge VMs (Only admin and > domain-admins can), but they can destroy them and the admin can configure the > expunge.delay where VMs truly get removed (expunged). > Working with the expunge delay is very safe in case users accidentally remove > a VM, but in some cases (when users know what they are doing) there should > also be a option to completely remove the VM when destroying it (expunge). > Ideally the admin should be able to configure this behavior trough the global > settings, cause i believe the admin deliberately needs to turn it on (off by > default). > We have looked into making our clients domain-admin by default, but that > gives them abilities we do not want to give, so we see no other way then just > enabling expunge for the user. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)