- 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
property:compute/zone
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
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Last updated 2024-05-21 UTC.