When you finish learning about GKE, clean up to avoid
billing charges.
If you plan to take additional tutorials, wait until you finish those
tutorials before you clean up. You can use the sample Kubernetes cluster
in most GKE tutorials.
Clean up to avoid billing charges
If you created a new project to learn about GKE and you no
longer need the project, delete the project.
If you used an existing GKE project, delete the resources you
created to avoid incurring charges to your account:
Select the row containing hello-world-cluster, and click
Delete.
In the Delete hello-world-cluster window, do the following:
In the hello-world-cluster field, enter hello-world-cluster.
Click Delete.
If you receive an error message about the cluster being repaired, you can
wait for the process to complete, and then delete the cluster. This operation
might take some time to complete.
If you created a logs sink and bucket when following instructions in other
tutorials:
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Hard to understand","hardToUnderstand","thumb-down"],["Incorrect information or sample code","incorrectInformationOrSampleCode","thumb-down"],["Missing the information/samples I need","missingTheInformationSamplesINeed","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2025-08-29 UTC."],[],[],null,["# Clean up the sample cluster and workload\n\n[Autopilot](/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/autopilot-overview)\n\n*** ** * ** ***\n\nWhen you finish learning about GKE, clean up to avoid\nbilling charges.\n\nIf you plan to take additional tutorials, wait until you finish those\ntutorials before you clean up. You can use the sample Kubernetes cluster\nin most GKE tutorials.\n\nClean up to avoid billing charges\n---------------------------------\n\nIf you created a new project to learn about GKE and you no\nlonger need the project, [delete the project](https://console.cloud.google.com/cloud-resource-manager).\n\nIf you used an existing GKE project, delete the resources you\ncreated to avoid incurring charges to your account:\n\n1. Go to the GKE **Clusters** page.\n\n\n [Go to Clusters](https://console.cloud.google.com/kubernetes/list/overview)\n\n \u003cbr /\u003e\n\n2. Select the row containing **hello-world-cluster** , and click\n **Delete**.\n\n3. In the **Delete hello-world-cluster** window, do the following:\n\n 1. In the **hello-world-cluster** field, enter `hello-world-cluster`.\n\n 2. Click **Delete**.\n\n If you receive an error message about the cluster being repaired, you can\n wait for the process to complete, and then delete the cluster. This operation\n might take some time to complete.\n4. If you created a logs sink and bucket when following instructions in other\n tutorials:\n\n 1. Go to the Cloud Logging **Logs storage** page.\n\n\n [Go to Logs storage](https://console.cloud.google.com/logs/storage)\n\n \u003cbr /\u003e\n\n 2. Select **hello-world-cluster-bucket** and click **Delete**.\n\n 3. Go to the Logging **Log router** page.\n\n\n [Go to Log router](https://console.cloud.google.com/logs/router)\n\n \u003cbr /\u003e\n\n 4. Select **hello-world-cluster-sink** and click **Delete**.\n\nWhat's next\n-----------\n\n- View [code samples](/docs/samples) demonstrating the usage of\n Google Cloud products.\n\n- Discover [best practices and reference architectures](/architecture/application-development)\n for application development \"Architecture guides for application development\"\n\n- [Plan, architect, deploy, and operate](/kubernetes-engine/docs/best-practices/scalability)\n large workloads on GKE clusters while scaling workloads within\n service-level objectives (SLOs)."]]