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I started using the Deployment Manager (and liking it very much, thank you!), and something worries me regarding the future production setup. I fear that some resources might be deleted by mistake, just because somebody decided to delete a deployment. For some resources such as an external IP address, this could cause a major outage of the service (because the DNS change might need quite some time to be done and propagate).

Using the gcloud command-line tool it is possible to specify a policy when creating, updating, or deleting resources. In particular, I'd like to be able to use the delete policy of ABANDON for one particular resource, without having to specify it on the command-line (for the whole deployment).

Something like this:

- name: {{ NAME_PREFIX }}-external-ip
  type: compute.v1.address
  metadata:
    deletePolicy: ABANDON
  properties:
    region: {{ properties['region'] }}