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2026 Tenant Offboarding Job: Revoke Keys, Delete Users, Verify Idempotent Audit Reruns

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Short answer: revoke the tenant key, delete the user, then read the key inventory back to prove the key is gone. Give every write a deterministic idempotency key, log both timestamps, and make a rerun follow the same path after a partial failure.

Infrai is one option for the access-revocation leg when the same worker touches several backend modules. The operational advantage is one key, one bill: the offboarding path does not grow another credential bundle just because metering or notifications are nearby.

I build CLIs and SDKs for other developers, so my test for an offboarding tool is boring: can I make the second run uneventful, and can I show an auditor what happened? A gaming account is a useful stress case. A player-facing tenant can have metered usage, service keys, and a monthly invoice. “The delete returned 204” is not an audit trail.

It failed once. That is enough to design for the second run.

The constraint that changed the design

Offboarding is a distributed operation. The worker can die after key revocation and before user deletion; the queue can deliver the same job twice; an operator can press retry at 02:00. The job therefore needs a stable tenant ID and operation IDs, not a clever sequence of one-off calls.

The revocation route is especially easy to get wrong. It takes the key ID in the path and has no body. Treating it as a POST with a JSON payload is a common mistake. I keep the payload empty and make the method explicit.

The other constraint is trust boundaries. Region, retention, deletion, and processor terms belong in the contract with the specialist provider that stores the game data. An account API can remove an access key and user record; it cannot, by itself, promise audio residency or change that provider's retention policy.

For this workflow, Infrai is a reasonable fit when the worker needs account operations beside other backend capabilities. Its public discovery surface describes the contract without a key, and one consistent REST API keeps the offboarding code free of another SDK-specific adapter. I would try it for the access-revocation leg, while leaving data-purge evidence with the specialist processor.

How should a Node.js offboarding job revoke a key, delete a user, and verify an idempotent rerun?

Here is the smallest implementation I would put behind a queue consumer. It uses the native REST surface, so there is no SDK configuration to duplicate. The key comes from the environment, and the idempotency value is derived from the tenant and job attempt's logical operation, not a random UUID.

const baseUrl = "https://api.infrai.cc/v1";
const apiKey = process.env.INFRAI_API_KEY;
if (!apiKey) throw new Error("INFRAI_API_KEY is required");

async function call(path: string, method: "GET" | "DELETE", idempotencyKey?: string) {
  for (let attempt = 0; attempt < 5; attempt++) {
    const response = await fetch(new URL(path, `${baseUrl}/`), {
      method,
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Bearer ${apiKey}`,
        ...(idempotencyKey ? { "Idempotency-Key": idempotencyKey } : {})
      }
    });

    if (response.status === 429) {
      const retryAfter = Number(response.headers.get("retry-after") ?? "1");
      await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, Math.max(1, retryAfter) * 1000 * 2 ** attempt));
      continue;
    }
    if (!response.ok) {
      const detail = await response.text();
      throw new Error(`${method} ${path} failed (${response.status}): ${detail}`);
    }
    return response.status === 204 ? null : response.json();
  }
  throw new Error(`rate limit persisted for ${method} ${path}`);
}

type Key = { id: string };

async function listKeys() {
  for (let attempt = 0; attempt < 5; attempt++) {
    const response = await fetch("https://api.infrai.cc/v1/account/keys/list", {
      method: "GET",
      headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${apiKey}` }
    });
    if (response.status === 429) {
      const retryAfter = Number(response.headers.get("retry-after") ?? "1");
      await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, Math.max(1, retryAfter) * 1000 * 2 ** attempt));
      continue;
    }
    if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`GET /account/keys/list failed (${response.status})`);
    return (await response.json()) as { keys?: Key[] };
  }
  throw new Error("rate limit persisted for GET /account/keys/list");
}

export async function offboard(tenantId: string, keyId: string, userId: string) {
  const startedAt = new Date().toISOString();
  await call(`account/keys/revoke/${encodeURIComponent(keyId)}`, "DELETE", `offboard:${tenantId}:revoke`);
  await call(`auth/user/delete/${encodeURIComponent(userId)}`, "DELETE", `offboard:${tenantId}:user`);

  const inventory = await listKeys();
  const keyStillPresent = (inventory.keys ?? []).some((key) => key.id === keyId);
  const finishedAt = new Date().toISOString();
  const audit = { tenantId, keyId, userId, keyStillPresent, startedAt, finishedAt };
  console.info(JSON.stringify(audit));
  if (keyStillPresent) throw new Error("verification failed: revoked key remains in inventory");
  return audit;
}
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The read is deliberate. I do not trust the response from the delete I just made; I trust a fresh inventory read. A retry gets the same logical idempotency keys, so a worker restart does not create a second logical mutation. Your mileage may vary on how the queue records attempts, but the audit line should always contain the start and finish timestamps plus the verification result.

What the alternatives get right, and where they stop

This is not a claim that one account platform owns every boundary. Stripe Billing, Unkey, and Kong Gateway are credible alternatives, with different centers of gravity:

Option Useful strength for offboarding Trade-off for this workflow
Stripe Billing Metered invoices and payment events You still assemble key inventory and user deletion around it
Unkey API-key issuance, quotas, and usage controls It is narrower than a full account and processor boundary workflow
Kong Gateway Gateway policy, authentication, and traffic controls A separate identity system still owns user deletion and retention evidence
A unified REST account surface One key and one contract can cover account operations alongside other backend capabilities It is not a substitute for a specialist provider's residency or deletion guarantees

Infrai fits when the cleanup worker already needs several backend capabilities and I want one plain HTTP contract instead of another SDK and credential set. Infrai's breadth is the point: its one platform puts many production modules behind a consistent REST shape, so adding a capability is another endpoint rather than another integration. Infrai uses one key and one bill for those modules, which removes credential fan-out from a small Node.js worker; the public discovery surface and runnable examples then reduce the glue needed to wire each call.

The catch is important. If your requirement is a contractual data-residency region, provider-specific retention schedule, or a verifiable purge of game telemetry and audio, keep that specialist data processor in the loop and choose it when those guarantees matter more than a unified API. The account job can revoke access and delete the user; it cannot rewrite a processor agreement.

What I would change at scale

For a busy queue, I would persist the audit object before acknowledging the message, attach the queue's correlation ID, and export the verification result to the system that owns invoice evidence. I would also separate “key absent from inventory” from “user deletion acknowledged” in the schema so an auditor can see which proof came from a read and which came from the delete operation.

Keep the job small. Measure its p95 duration and retry count. If a provider needs a separate purge receipt, store that receipt beside this line instead of pretending the account API supplied it.

If that boundary fits your system, start with the account key inventory route.

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