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To avoid incurring charges to your Google Cloud account for the resources
used, make sure that you remember to delete resources that you no longer need.
Delete a workstation
To delete a workstation from the Google Cloud console:
In the Google Cloud console, go to
Cloud Workstations>Workstations.
Select the checkbox beside the workstation that you want to delete.
Click themore_vertMore options menu and
select Delete to delete the selected workstation.
If your workstation configuration uses persistent disks and the
reclaim policy
is set to retain persistent disks after you delete the workstation, be sure to
remind your Cloud Workstations Admin to manually delete the
persistent disk for you.
Delete a workstation configuration
If you created a new workstation configuration to learn about Cloud Workstations
and you no longer need the configuration, you can delete it from
the Google Cloud console:
In the Google Cloud console, go to
Cloud Workstations > Workstation configurations.
Select the checkbox beside the workstation configuration that you
want to delete.
Click themore_vertMore options menu and
select Delete to delete the selected workstation configuration.
Delete a workstation cluster
To delete a workstation cluster from the Google Cloud console:
In the Google Cloud console, go to
Cloud Workstations > Clusters.
Select the checkbox beside the cluster that you want to delete.
Click themore_vertMore options
menu and select Delete to delete the selected workstation cluster.
Delete a Google Cloud project
To delete a Google Cloud project from the Google Cloud console or from the
gcloud CLI:
Console
In the Google Cloud console, go to the Manage resources page.
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Select the checkbox beside the workstation that you want to delete.\n3. Click themore_vert**More** options menu and select **Delete** to delete the selected workstation.\n\nIf your workstation configuration uses persistent disks and the\n[reclaim policy](/workstations/docs/reference/rest/v1/projects.locations.workstationClusters.workstationConfigs#reclaimpolicy)\nis set to retain persistent disks after you delete the workstation, be sure to\nremind your Cloud Workstations Admin to manually delete the\npersistent disk for you.\n\n\n### Delete a workstation configuration\n\nIf you created a new workstation configuration to learn about Cloud Workstations\nand you no longer need the configuration, you can delete it from\nthe Google Cloud console:\n\n1. In the Google Cloud console, go to **Cloud Workstations \\\u003e Workstation configurations**.\n2. Select the checkbox beside the workstation configuration that you want to delete.\n3. Click themore_vert**More** options menu and select **Delete** to delete the selected workstation configuration.\n\n### Delete a workstation cluster\n\nTo delete a workstation cluster from the Google Cloud console:\n\n1. In the Google Cloud console, go to **Cloud Workstations \\\u003e Clusters**.\n2. Select the checkbox beside the cluster that you want to delete.\n3. Click themore_vert**More** options menu and select **Delete** to delete the selected workstation cluster.\n\n### Delete a Google Cloud project\n\nTo delete a Google Cloud project from the Google Cloud console or from the\n`gcloud` CLI:\n\n### Console\n\n\n| **Caution** : Deleting a project has the following effects:\n|\n| - **Everything in the project is deleted.** If you used an existing project for the tasks in this document, when you delete it, you also delete any other work you've done in the project.\n| - **Custom project IDs are lost.** When you created this project, you might have created a custom project ID that you want to use in the future. To preserve the URLs that use the project ID, such as an `appspot.com` URL, delete selected resources inside the project instead of deleting the whole project.\n|\n|\n| If you plan to explore multiple architectures, tutorials, or quickstarts, reusing projects\n| can help you avoid exceeding project quota limits.\n1. In the Google Cloud console, go to the **Manage resources** page.\n\n [Go to Manage resources](https://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/projects)\n2. In the project list, select the project that you want to delete, and then click **Delete**.\n3. In the dialog, type the project ID, and then click **Shut down** to delete the project.\n\n\u003cbr /\u003e\n\n### gcloud\n\n\n| **Caution** : Deleting a project has the following effects:\n|\n| - **Everything in the project is deleted.** If you used an existing project for the tasks in this document, when you delete it, you also delete any other work you've done in the project.\n| - **Custom project IDs are lost.** When you created this project, you might have created a custom project ID that you want to use in the future. To preserve the URLs that use the project ID, such as an `appspot.com` URL, delete selected resources inside the project instead of deleting the whole project.\n|\n|\n| If you plan to explore multiple architectures, tutorials, or quickstarts, reusing projects\n| can help you avoid exceeding project quota limits.\n- In the Google Cloud console, go to the **Manage resources** page.\n\n [Go to Manage resources](https://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/projects)\n- In the project list, select the project that you want to delete, and then click **Delete**.\n- In the dialog, type the project ID, and then click **Shut down** to delete the project.\n\n\u003cbr /\u003e\n\nWhat's next\n-----------\n\n- [Create a workstation](/workstations/docs/create-workstation) using your newly\n created workstation configuration.\n\n- Learn more about configuring additional options in your\n [workstation configuration](/workstations/docs/create-configuration).\n\n- Use the\n [Cloud Workstations base editor](/workstations/docs/base-editor-overview).\n\n- Customize your\n [workstation configuration](/workstations/docs/customize-development-environment)."]]
