Delete Dynamic Network Interfaces from an instance

Preview — Dynamic NICs

This feature is subject to the "Pre-GA Offerings Terms" in the General Service Terms section of the Service Specific Terms. Pre-GA features are available "as is" and might have limited support. For more information, see the launch stage descriptions.

This page describes how to delete a Dynamic Network Interface (NIC) from an existing Compute Engine instance.

For an overview of multiple network interfaces, see Multiple network interfaces.

To view an instance's existing network interfaces, see View network interfaces for an instance.

Delete a Dynamic NIC

Delete Dynamic NICs by using the following procedures. To prevent a possible error when deleting a Dynamic NIC by instance update, don't delete Dynamic NICs from individual instances by updating instance properties.

Note: You can't delete a Dynamic NIC by using the Google Cloud console. You must use the gcloud CLI or the API.

gcloud

To delete a Dynamic NIC from an existing instance, use the instances network-interfaces delete command.

gcloud beta compute instances network-interfaces delete INSTANCE_NAME \
    --zone=ZONE \
    --network-interface=DYNAMIC_NIC_NAME

Replace the following:

• INSTANCE_NAME: the name of the instance to create
• ZONE: the zone of the instance
• DYNAMIC_NIC_NAME: the name of the Dynamic NIC to delete, such as nic0.2

To delete Dynamic NICs from an a managed instance group (MIG), seeinstance-groups managed set-instance-template.

API

To delete a Dynamic NIC from an existing instance, use the instances.deleteNetworkInterface method.

POST https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/beta/projects/PROJECT_ID/zones/ZONE/instances/INSTANCE_NAME/deleteNetworkInterface?networkInterfaceName=DYNAMIC_NIC_NAME

Replace the following:

• PROJECT_ID: the ID of the project that contains the instance
• ZONE: the zone that contains the instance
• INSTANCE_NAME: the name of the instance to delete the Dynamic NIC from
• DYNAMIC_NIC_NAME: the name of the Dynamic NIC to delete, such as nic0.2

To delete Dynamic NICs from an a managed instance group (MIG), see instanceGroupManagers.setInstanceTemplate.