https://gitlab.com/CentOS/infra/tracker/-/issues/1648

We recently discovered that there are many machines in EC2 that are a result of failed provisions from Duffy.

When Duffy runs the Ansible playbook to create a machine, it can fail, and then Duffy will retry. However, it seems that the failed host might have been created and then something else goes wrong (e.g. perhaps a communication error), which causes Duffy to retry without deleting the host.

We should look into some form of reporting / cleanup mechanism (even just a Zabbix notify) that helps us avoid letting these hosts build up again.

_This issue ticket was originally created [here](https://pagure.io/centos-infra/issue/1648) on a Pagure repository,
[**centos-infra**](https://pagure.io/centos-infra) by [**Greg Sutcliffe**](https://accounts.fedoraproject.org/user/gwmngilfen) on
[**Wed Apr 23 13:59:21 2025** UTC](https://savvytime.com/converter/utc/apr-23-2025/13-59)._

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