Feature Request "Forced BMH deletion"

[matthewei]

What steps did you take and what happened:
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matthew@ubuntu:~/github/metal3_dev/baremetal-operator|main⚡ ⇒  kubectl get bmh -A              
NAMESPACE   NAME                   STATE                        CONSUMER   ONLINE   ERROR   AGE
default     cmss-baremetalhost-1   powering off before delete              true             2m58s
matthew@ubuntu:~/github/metal3_dev/baremetal-operator|main⚡ ⇒  

What did you expect to happen:

Delete the BMH directly!

Anything else you would like to add:
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Environment:

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/kind bug

[agewagra]

Try to use patch and delete finalizers. BMH will be deleted

[dtantsur]

Try to use patch and delete finalizers.

Please, PLEASE, never recommend anyone to delete finalizers, especially if they don't know 100% what they are doing. In this case, you can and probably will leave a dangling Node in Ironic.

[dtantsur]

On the topic of the request: I think we miss a way to force-delete BareMetalHosts. The reason BMO works the way it works is to try leave the host in a safe state. E.g. a powered on worker can try to rejoin the cluster, messing up CAPI.

[Rozzii]

I have renamed this issue to represent an actionable feature request.
I agree with @dtantsur that we don't have forced BMH deletion and that could come handy for many users.
/triage accepted
/kind feature

[matthewei]

I have renamed this issue to represent an actionable feature request. I agree with @dtantsur that we don't have forced BMH deletion and that could come handy for many users. /triage accepted /kind feature

yes, we need this feature

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[Rozzii]

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[Rozzii]

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