Unable to delete organization in Terraform Enterprise – HashiCorp Help Center

Introduction

Problem

Unable to delete an organization in Terraform Enterprise

Prerequisites

Terraform Enterprise version lower then v202312-1

Cause

Trying to delete an organization in UI or API results with an internal 500 error

API example:

curl \                                                                                          
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json" \
  --request DELETE \
  https://<tfe_fqdn>/api/v2/admin/organizations/<organization_name>

# output
{"errors":[{"status":"500","title":"internal server error"}]

In the container logs you might see an issue like the following

2023-10-24T11:33:12.795785000Z {"component":"atlas","log":"2023-10-24 11:33:11 
[ERROR] [5e2820cd-fe07-4208-a50c-b674e020341b] 
[dd.service=atlas dd.trace_id=494634590008281533 dd.span_id=0 ddsource=ruby] 
error=ActiveRecord::InvalidForeignKey id=121790580 
message=PG::ForeignKeyViolation: 
ERROR: update or delete on table \"users\" violates foreign key constraint \"fk_rails_425d0d7dc7\" on table \"teams\""}

Solution:

Upgrade your Terraform Enterprise version to release v202312-1

Additional Information

API documentation for deleting an organization can be found here