Deletes the cluster, including the Kubernetes endpoint and all worker nodes.
Firewalls and routes that were configured during cluster creation are also deleted.
Other Google Compute Engine resources that might be in use by the cluster, such as load balancer resources, are not deleted if they weren't present when the cluster was initially created.
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Hard to understand","hardToUnderstand","thumb-down"],["Incorrect information or sample code","incorrectInformationOrSampleCode","thumb-down"],["Missing the information/samples I need","missingTheInformationSamplesINeed","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2025-07-08 UTC."],[],[],null,["# Method: projects.locations.clusters.delete\n\n- [HTTP request](#body.HTTP_TEMPLATE)\n- [Path parameters](#body.PATH_PARAMETERS)\n- [Query parameters](#body.QUERY_PARAMETERS)\n- [Request body](#body.request_body)\n- [Response body](#body.response_body)\n- [Authorization scopes](#body.aspect)\n- [Try it!](#try-it)\n\nDeletes the cluster, including the Kubernetes endpoint and all worker nodes.\n\nFirewalls and routes that were configured during cluster creation are also deleted.\n\nOther Google Compute Engine resources that might be in use by the cluster, such as load balancer resources, are not deleted if they weren't present when the cluster was initially created.\n\n### HTTP request\n\n`DELETE https://container.googleapis.com/v1/{name=projects/*/locations/*/clusters/*}`\n\nThe URL uses [gRPC Transcoding](https://google.aip.dev/127) syntax.\n\n### Path parameters\n\n### Query parameters\n\n### Request body\n\nThe request body must be empty.\n\n### Response body\n\nIf successful, the response body contains an instance of [Operation](/kubernetes-engine/docs/reference/rest/v1/projects.locations.operations#Operation).\n\n### Authorization scopes\n\nRequires the following OAuth scope:\n\n- `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform`\n\nFor more information, see the [Authentication Overview](/docs/authentication#authorization-gcp)."]]