CLI/UI should allow continuation after a failed installation

[joshrosso]

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Originally opened in vmware-tanzu/community-edition#2926 via @berndtj

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Feature Request

There are many reasons that an installation can fail. It would be great if one didn't need to tear everything down and start over when that occurs. Often times there are AWS resources that have already been created before the failure, and those too need to be cleaned up. Additionally the process of cleaning up resources is not straight forward and a little incomplete.

For instance, my mgmt cluster failed to come up because the IAM profiles were missing. Ideally, I create those resources:

tanzu management-cluster permissions aws set

And then add a continue flag to the create process:

tanzu management-cluster create --file /Users/bjung/.config/tanzu/tkg/clusterconfigs/yrgx81xnt3.yaml -v 6 -e --continue

And the installation just continues. Today, the reconciliation within the bootstrap cluster will continue, but there is client-side logic that will not run and so I'm left with a broken mgmt cluster. The only recourse is to delete the mgmt cluster, the bootstrap cluster, and rerun create.

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Affected product area (please put an X in all that apply)

• APIs
• Addons
• CLI
• Docs
• IAM
• Installation
• Plugin
• Security
• Test and Release
• User Experience

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