gcloud compute instances delete

NAME
gcloud compute instances delete - delete Compute Engine virtual machine instances
SYNOPSIS
gcloud compute instances delete INSTANCE_NAMES [INSTANCE_NAMES …] [--zone=ZONE] [--delete-disks=DISK_TYPE     | --keep-disks=DISK_TYPE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
DESCRIPTION
gcloud compute instances delete deletes one or more Compute Engine virtual machine instances.
EXAMPLES
To delete an instance called 'instance-1' in the zone 'us-central-2-a', run: 
gcloud compute instances delete instance-1 --zone=us-central2-a
POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
INSTANCE_NAMES [INSTANCE_NAMES …]
Names of the instances to delete. For details on valid instance names, refer to the criteria documented under the field 'name' at: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances
FLAGS
--zone=ZONE
Zone of the instances to delete. If not specified, you might be prompted to select a zone (interactive mode only). gcloud attempts to identify the appropriate zone by searching for resources in your currently active project. If the zone cannot be determined, gcloud prompts you for a selection with all available Google Cloud Platform zones.

To avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, the user can set the compute/zone property: 

gcloud config set compute/zone ZONE

A list of zones can be fetched by running: 

gcloud compute zones list

To unset the property, run: 

gcloud config unset compute/zone

Alternatively, the zone can be stored in the environment variable CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE.

At most one of these can be specified:
--delete-disks=DISK_TYPE
The types of disks to delete with instance deletion regardless of the disks' auto-delete configuration. When this flag is provided, the auto-delete bits on the attached disks are modified accordingly before the instance deletion requests are issued. For more information on disk auto-deletion, see Set the auto-delete state of a zonal persistent disk. DISK_TYPE must be one of:
all
All disk types.
boot
The first partition is reserved for the root filesystem.
data
A non-boot disk.
--keep-disks=DISK_TYPE
The types of disks to not delete with instance deletion regardless of the disks' auto-delete configuration. When this flag is provided, the auto-delete bits on the attached disks are modified accordingly before the instance deletion requests are issued. For more information on disk auto-deletion, see Set the auto-delete state of a zonal persistent disk. DISK_TYPE must be one of:
all
All disk types.
boot
The first partition is reserved for the root filesystem.
data
A non-boot disk.
GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
These flags are available to all commands: --access-token-file, --account, --billing-project, --configuration, --flags-file, --flatten, --format, --help, --impersonate-service-account, --log-http, --project, --quiet, --trace-token, --user-output-enabled, --verbosity.

Run $ gcloud help for details.

NOTES
These variants are also available: 
gcloud alpha compute instances delete
 
gcloud beta compute instances delete