gcloud alpha compute instances delete

gcloud alpha compute instances delete - delete Compute Engine virtual machine instances

gcloud alpha compute instances delete INSTANCE_NAMES [INSTANCE_NAMES …] [--no-graceful-shutdown] [--zone=ZONE] [--delete-disks=DISK_TYPE     | --keep-disks=DISK_TYPE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]

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

--no-graceful-shutdown

Deletes the instance immediately without gracefully shutting it down. If a graceful shutdown is in progress, then the instance is forcefully stopped and deleted.

--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.

Run $ gcloud help for details.