POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

INSTANCE_NAMES [INSTANCE_NAMES ...]

Names of the instances to delete.

FLAGS

--zone=ZONE

Zone of the instances to delete. If not specified, you may be prompted to select a zone. gcloud will attempt to identify the zone by searching for resources in your project. If the zone cannot be determined, you will then be prompted with all Google Cloud Platform zones.
To avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, you 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 may 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 cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/persistent-disks#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 cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/persistent-disks#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.

GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS

NOTES

$ gcloud alpha compute instances delete $ gcloud beta compute instances delete