Offer dry run option for cdk destroy

[cknight]

Describe the feature

It would be nice to see what the effect of using cdk destroy is without actually destroying anything. The ability to see a list of resources which would be destroyed during cdk destory perhaps at the same time validating the destroy would work would be useful.

Use Case

We are establishing a destroy CI pipeline. As a significantly destructive operation, offering the ability to check what it will do prior to carrying out the destroy action would be very helpful.

Proposed Solution

A dry run would show a list of resources to be destroyed, grouped by resource type and count, but not actually carry out a destroy action on anything. Flag via CLI, cdk destroy --dry-run

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

2.147.3

Environment details (OS name and version, etc.)

Windows 10/latest Ubuntu GitHub actions runner

[khushail]

Hey @cknight , thanks for reaching out. It sounds a good-to-have feature in CDK Destroy command. However I am marking this feature as P3 which essentially means our team won't be able to work on it immediately. If you or anyone from the community would like to take this up, please feel free to proceed, by following our contribution guide.