Delete reservations

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This document explains how to delete reservations.

If you no longer need a reservation, then delete it to stop incurring charges for its reserved resources. If you no longer need a shared reservation, then you can only delete it using the owner project.

Before you begin

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  gcloud

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  Go

  To use the Go samples on this page in a local development environment, install and initialize the gcloud CLI, and then set up Application Default Credentials with your user credentials.

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     gcloud init

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  Java

  To use the Java samples on this page in a local development environment, install and initialize the gcloud CLI, and then set up Application Default Credentials with your user credentials.

  1. Install the Google Cloud CLI.

  2. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:

     gcloud init

  3. If you're using a local shell, then create local authentication credentials for your user account:

     gcloud auth application-default login

     You don't need to do this if you're using Cloud Shell.

  For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

  Node.js

  To use the Node.js samples on this page in a local development environment, install and initialize the gcloud CLI, and then set up Application Default Credentials with your user credentials.

  1. Install the Google Cloud CLI.

  2. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:

     gcloud init

  3. If you're using a local shell, then create local authentication credentials for your user account:

     gcloud auth application-default login

     You don't need to do this if you're using Cloud Shell.

  For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

  Python

  To use the Python samples on this page in a local development environment, install and initialize the gcloud CLI, and then set up Application Default Credentials with your user credentials.

  1. Install the Google Cloud CLI.

  2. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:

     gcloud init

  3. If you're using a local shell, then create local authentication credentials for your user account:

     gcloud auth application-default login

     You don't need to do this if you're using Cloud Shell.

  For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

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  To use the REST API samples on this page in a local development environment, you use the credentials you provide to the gcloud CLI.

  Install the Google Cloud CLI, then initialize it by running the following command:

  gcloud init

  For more information, see Authenticate for using REST in the Google Cloud authentication documentation.

Delete a reservation

Before deleting a reservation, ensure that the following conditions are met:

• The reservation isn't tied to a commitment.

• If you want to delete a specific reservation, then ensure that no virtual machine (VM) instances are targeting it for consumption by doing one or more of the following:

  • Delete VMs.

  • Update the reservationAffinity property of the VMs.

After deleting a reservation, you're no longer charged for the reservation and the reserved VMs are no longer reserved for you. The previously reserved VMs continue to run and you keep incurring charges for those VMs.

To delete multiple reservations simultaneously, use the Google Cloud console. Otherwise, to delete a single reservation, select any of the following options:

Console

1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the Reservations page.

   Go to Reservations

2. On the On-demand reservations tab (default), select the reservations that you want to delete.

3. Click Delete.

4. To confirm, click Delete.

   Deleting one or more reservations simultaneously might take up to a minute to complete.

gcloud

To delete a reservation, use the gcloud compute reservations delete command.

gcloud compute reservations delete RESERVATION_NAME \
    --zone=ZONE

Replace the following:

• RESERVATION_NAME: the name of an existing reservation that you want to delete.

• ZONE: the zone where the reservation is located.

Go

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	compute "cloud.google.com/go/compute/apiv1"
	computepb "cloud.google.com/go/compute/apiv1/computepb"
)

// Deletes the reservation for given project and zone
func deleteReservation(w io.Writer, projectID, zone, reservationName string) error {
	// projectID := "your_project_id"
	// zone := "us-west3-a"
	// reservationName := "your_reservation_name"

	ctx := context.Background()
	reservationsClient, err := compute.NewReservationsRESTClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	defer reservationsClient.Close()

	req := &computepb.DeleteReservationRequest{
		Project:     projectID,
		Reservation: reservationName,
		Zone:        zone,
	}

	op, err := reservationsClient.Delete(ctx, req)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("unable to delete reservation: %w", err)
	}

	if err = op.Wait(ctx); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("unable to wait for the operation: %w", err)
	}

	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Reservation deleted\n")

	return nil
}

Java

import com.google.cloud.compute.v1.DeleteReservationRequest;
import com.google.cloud.compute.v1.Operation;
import com.google.cloud.compute.v1.ReservationsClient;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;

public class DeleteReservation {

  public static void main(String[] args)
      throws IOException, ExecutionException, InterruptedException, TimeoutException {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    // Project ID or project number of the Cloud project you want to use.
    String projectId = "YOUR_PROJECT_ID";
    // Name of the reservation you want to delete.
    String reservationName = "YOUR_RESERVATION_NAME";
    // Name of the zone.
    String zone = "us-central1-a";

    deleteReservation(projectId, zone, reservationName);
  }

  // Delete a reservation from the project.
  public static void deleteReservation(String projectId, String zone, String reservationName)
      throws IOException, ExecutionException, InterruptedException, TimeoutException {
    /* Initialize client that will be used to send requests. This client only needs to be created
       once, and can be reused for multiple requests. */
    try (ReservationsClient reservationsClient = ReservationsClient.create()) {

      DeleteReservationRequest deleteReservationRequest = DeleteReservationRequest.newBuilder()
          .setProject(projectId)
          .setZone(zone)
          .setReservation(reservationName)
          .build();

      Operation response = reservationsClient.deleteAsync(
          deleteReservationRequest).get(5, TimeUnit.MINUTES);

      if (response.getStatus() == Operation.Status.DONE) {
        System.out.println("Deleted reservation: " + reservationName);
      }
    }
  }
}

Node.js

// Import the Compute library
const computeLib = require('@google-cloud/compute');
// Instantiate a reservationsClient
const reservationsClient = new computeLib.ReservationsClient();
// Instantiate a zoneOperationsClient
const zoneOperationsClient = new computeLib.ZoneOperationsClient();
/**
 * TODO(developer): Update/uncomment these variables before running the sample.
 */
// The ID of the project where your reservation is located.
const projectId = await reservationsClient.getProjectId();
// The zone where your reservation is located.
const zone = 'us-central1-a';
// The name of the reservation to delete.
// reservationName = 'reservation-01';

async function callDeleteReservation() {
  // Delete the reservation
  const [response] = await reservationsClient.delete({
    project: projectId,
    reservation: reservationName,
    zone,
  });

  let operation = response.latestResponse;

  // Wait for the delete reservation operation to complete.
  while (operation.status !== 'DONE') {
    [operation] = await zoneOperationsClient.wait({
      operation: operation.name,
      project: projectId,
      zone: operation.zone.split('/').pop(),
    });
  }

  console.log(`Reservation: ${reservationName} deleted.`);
}
await callDeleteReservation();

Python

from __future__ import annotations

import sys
from typing import Any

from google.api_core.extended_operation import ExtendedOperation
from google.cloud import compute_v1


def wait_for_extended_operation(
    operation: ExtendedOperation, verbose_name: str = "operation", timeout: int = 300
) -> Any:
    """
    Waits for the extended (long-running) operation to complete.

    If the operation is successful, it will return its result.
    If the operation ends with an error, an exception will be raised.
    If there were any warnings during the execution of the operation
    they will be printed to sys.stderr.

    Args:
        operation: a long-running operation you want to wait on.
        verbose_name: (optional) a more verbose name of the operation,
            used only during error and warning reporting.
        timeout: how long (in seconds) to wait for operation to finish.
            If None, wait indefinitely.

    Returns:
        Whatever the operation.result() returns.

    Raises:
        This method will raise the exception received from `operation.exception()`
        or RuntimeError if there is no exception set, but there is an `error_code`
        set for the `operation`.

        In case of an operation taking longer than `timeout` seconds to complete,
        a `concurrent.futures.TimeoutError` will be raised.
    """
    result = operation.result(timeout=timeout)

    if operation.error_code:
        print(
            f"Error during {verbose_name}: [Code: {operation.error_code}]: {operation.error_message}",
            file=sys.stderr,
            flush=True,
        )
        print(f"Operation ID: {operation.name}", file=sys.stderr, flush=True)
        raise operation.exception() or RuntimeError(operation.error_message)

    if operation.warnings:
        print(f"Warnings during {verbose_name}:\n", file=sys.stderr, flush=True)
        for warning in operation.warnings:
            print(f" - {warning.code}: {warning.message}", file=sys.stderr, flush=True)

    return result


def delete_compute_reservation(
    project_id: str,
    zone: str = "us-central1-a",
    reservation_name="your-reservation-name",
) -> ExtendedOperation:
    """
    Deletes a compute reservation in Google Cloud.
    Args:
        project_id (str): The ID of the Google Cloud project.
        zone (str): The zone of the reservation.
        reservation_name (str): The name of the reservation to delete.
    Returns:
        The operation response from the reservation deletion request.
    """

    client = compute_v1.ReservationsClient()

    operation = client.delete(
        project=project_id,
        zone=zone,
        reservation=reservation_name,
    )

    wait_for_extended_operation(operation, "Reservation deletion")
    print(operation.status)
    # Example response:
    # Status.DONE
    return operation

REST

To delete a reservation, make a DELETE request to the reservation.delete method.

DELETE https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/zones/ZONE/reservations/RESERVATION_NAME

Replace the following:

• PROJECT_ID: the ID of the project that you used to create the reservation.

• ZONE: the zone where the reservation is located.

• RESERVATION_NAME: the name of the reservation that you want to delete.

What's next

• Learn how to view your reservations.