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

gcloud beta compute instances deleteINSTANCE_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 tothe 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 agraceful shutdown is in progress, then the instance is forcefully stopped anddeleted.

--zone=ZONE

Zone of the instances to delete. If not specified, you might be prompted toselect a zone (interactive mode only).gcloud attempts to identify theappropriate zone by searching for resources in your currently active project. Ifthe zone cannot be determined,gcloud prompts you for a selection withall available Google Cloud Platform zones.

To avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, the user can set thecompute/zone property:

gcloudconfigsetcompute/zoneZONE

A list of zones can be fetched by running:

gcloudcomputezoneslist

To unset the property, run:

gcloudconfigunsetcompute/zone

Alternatively, the zone can be stored in the environment variableCLOUDSDK_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 onthe attached disks are modified accordingly before the instance deletionrequests are issued. For more information on disk auto-deletion, seeSetthe 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 onthe attached disks are modified accordingly before the instance deletionrequests are issued. For more information on disk auto-deletion, seeSetthe 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.