gcloud compute instances delete - delete Compute Engine virtual machine instances
gcloud compute instances delete INSTANCE_NAMES [INSTANCE_NAMES ...] [--zone=ZONE] [--delete-disks=DISK_TYPE | --keep-disks=DISK_TYPE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG ...]
gcloud compute instances delete deletes one or more Compute Engine virtual machine instances.
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
- 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
- --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 https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/modify-persistent-disk#updateautodelete. 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 https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/modify-persistent-disk#updateautodelete. 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.
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.
These variants are also available:
$ gcloud alpha compute instances delete
$ gcloud beta compute instances delete