In case of deploy error there is no rollback

[augustinluca]

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Description

If you use deploy option with whole yaml file, in case of any error during deploy, there is no rollback for already deployed components which may lead to inconsistent state of the tenant.

Expectation

Before actual deploy a schema validation or similar should be perform to reduce the possibility of having errors during deploy.

Reproduction

To test this scenario:

• retrieve tenant metadata with version 8.14 as example using yaml format
• do the deploy of exactly the same metadata.
• an error similar with below one will be thrown:
  error: Problem running command import during stage processChanges when processing type clientGrants
  error: Problem updating clientGrants {"id":"xxxxxxxxx","client_id":"xxxxxxxxxx","audience":"https://domain.com/api/v2/"}
  ManagementApiError: Payload validation error: 'Additional properties not allowed: subject_type'.
• components that were already deployed up to this error are not reverted which may lead to inconsistent state of tenant.

Deploy CLI version

8.21

Node version

22

[kushalshit27]

Hi, @augustinluca ,
Thank you so much for suggesting this feature. It's an excellent idea, and we really appreciate you taking the time to share your vision with us.

Regarding the request for state management and rollback (similar to tools like Terraform), we acknowledge this is a powerful concept.

Currently, the deploy CLI is designed to be a simpler, stateless deployment tool. For complete, robust state management, we recommend using: Terraform Provider

However, always evaluating future directions for this tool! We will track this idea as a feature request to see if state management features could be integrated or partially supported down the road.

We've added your suggestion to our backlog for future consideration.

[kushalshit27]

We're moving this feature request to a GitHub discussion to encourage broader collaboration and input from the community.