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-# k8s-3 was the last Proxmox VM. neptune now runs Talos on bare metal, and its
-# disks were wiped during the conversion, so the VM this module described does
-# not exist in any form.
-#
-# `removed` rather than simply deleting vm_152_k8s_3.tf: dropping the resource
-# from configuration alone makes OpenTofu plan a DESTROY, and planning a destroy
-# refreshes the resource through the bpg/proxmox provider — which now has no
-# endpoint to reach. That is exactly what has been failing every infrastructure
-# plan since the conversion:
-#
-#   Error: failed to get resources list of type ("vm") for cluster:
-#   dial tcp 10.2.40.201:8006: connect: no route to host
-#     with module.k8s_3.proxmox_virtual_environment_vm.this
-#
-# `lifecycle { destroy = false }` forgets the state entry without attempting to
-# contact Proxmox. Nothing is orphaned by doing so: the guest, its disks and the
-# hypervisor underneath it are all already gone.
-#
-# This block can be deleted once one plan has run cleanly with it — it is a
-# one-shot instruction, not standing configuration.
-removed {
-  from = module.k8s_3
-
-  lifecycle {
-    destroy = false
-  }
-}