TLDR; Pleco is a service that automatically removes Cloud managed services and Kubernetes resources based on tags with TTL. When using cloud provider services, whether using UI or Terraform, you usually have to create many resources (users, VPCs, virtual machines, clusters, etc...) to host and expose an application to the outside world. When using Terraform, sometimes, the deployment will not go as planned. Terraform will create some resources, and others will not if it fails for any reason during the process. But what to do with those dangling resources? Delete them by hand? Too long and laborious. Manage the Terraform crash, its tfstate, and the probable state lock? Certainly not; what a pain! That's why at Qovery, we created Pleco. Pleco is a program that checks that the resources present are useful at regular intervals - reducing cloud cost and increasing engineering team efficiency.

Enzo Radnaï

Software Engineer