Merge pull request eksctl-io#1770 from sean-abbott/master

Add documentation about alternative ways to delete clusters
ajayk · Apr 7, 2020 · 08acd8b · 08acd8b
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diff --git a/site/content/usage/01-creating-and-managing-clusters.md b/site/content/usage/01-creating-and-managing-clusters.md
@@ -106,5 +106,6 @@ eksctl delete cluster -f cluster.yaml
 > stack and won't wait for its deletion.
 > In some cases, AWS resources using the cluster or its VPC may cause cluster deletion to fail. To ensure any deletion
 > errors are propagated in `eksctl delete cluster`, the `--wait` flag must be used.
+> If your delete fails or you forget the wait flag, you may have to go to the CloudFormation GUI and delete the eks stacks from there.
 
 See [`examples/`](https://github.com/weaveworks/eksctl/tree/master/examples) directory for more sample config files.
diff --git a/site/content/usage/21-troubleshooting.md b/site/content/usage/21-troubleshooting.md
@@ -45,3 +45,6 @@ vpc:
       us-east-1a: {id: subnet-33333333}
       us-east-1b: {id: subnet-44444444}
 ```
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+### Deletion issues
+If your delete does not work, or you forget to add `--wait` on the delete, you may need to go to use amazon's other tools to delete the cloudformation stacks. This can be accomplished via the gui or with the aws cli.