Customizable Virtual Machine Retirement in a Management Platform

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored therein that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to:

• determine, by the processing device in a management platform, that a virtual machine (VM) retirement event has occurred;
• invoke a VM retirement state machine to handle retirement of the VM corresponding to the VM retirement event;
• update, by the processing device, a VM retirement attribute corresponding to the VM to a retiring state;
• determine, by the processing device via the VM retirement state machine, that the VM is in a correct state to retire;
• execute, by the processing device via the VM retirement state machine, pre-retirement processes on the VM, the pre-retirement processes customized by users of the management platform;
• retire, by the processing device via the VM retirement state machine, the VM;
• and
• update, by the processing device via the VM retirement state machine, the VM retirement attribute to a retired state.

A system comprising:

• a memory to store an inventory tree for a management platform;
• and
• a processing device communicably coupled to the memory, the processing device to:
• responsive to occurrence of a virtual machine (VM) retirement event, invoke a VM retirement state machine of the management platform to handle retirement of a VM corresponding to the VM retirement event;
• set, via the VM retirement state machine, a VM retirement attribute corresponding to the VM to a retiring state;
• assess, via the VM retirement state machine, eligibility of the VM for retirement;
• responsive to determining that the VM is eligible for retirement, execute, via the VM retirement state machine, user-customized pre-retirement processes for the VM;
• cause, via the VM retirement state machine, the VM to be removed from a provider of the VM;
• and
• set, via the VM retirement state machine, the VM retirement attribute to a retired state.