(cli): introduce a new flag for CloudFormation's FORCE_DELETE_STACK

[garysassano]

Describe the feature

It would be nice if we could introduce a new flag in the CDK CLI to take advantage of the new DeletionMode parameter with FORCE_DELETE_STACK value to make sure that the CloudFormation stack gets destroyed at all costs, bypassing any possible error that may be encountered.

Use Case

Make the experience of force destroying a stack less annoying.

Proposed Solution

No response

Other Information

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Acknowledgements

• I may be able to implement this feature request
• This feature might incur a breaking change

CDK version used

2.143.0

Environment details (OS name and version, etc.)

WSL2 Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS

[par6n]

It would be very nice to have CDK leverage this feature. Although, I'm not entirely sure if recycling --force flag would be convenient, since the CDK force and CloudFormation FORCE_DELETE_STACK have two different meanings. Perhaps something like:

cdk destroy --mode FORCE_DELETE_STACK

Which would allow for other modes, if the CF team adds any in the future.

[nmussy]

I don't think we should update destroy --force to use this new mode, it would be an unexpected behavior for CDK users. The current flag only bypasses CLI confirmation.
I would definitely create a new flag, but a boolean --force-stack-deletion might be enough

[garysassano]

I agree that it could be problematic to change the behaviour of an existing flag, so I updated the PR.

[khushail]

@garysassano , thanks for submitting this FR. I agree with @nmussy ,since we have CDK Destroy, this behavior might be unexpected. Would need core team's input here on the consideration.

[comcalvi]

Definitely a new flag on cdk destroy, --force-stack-deletion is a good name.