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Kishore Sahasranaman
Kishore Sahasranaman

Reputation: 4230

GCP Delete Compute Engine - VM Instances - without enabling the billing

I have a situation to delete lot of VMs which was created in my GCP Project. But I need to delete all those VMs before I enable the billing.

Is this possible?

I tried with Cloud Shell, but No luck as the VM are Delete protection enabled.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2108

Answers (1)

Alex G
Alex G

Reputation: 1269

You can use the Cloud Console, Cloud Shell or GCP API to disable the Delete Protection first.

For Cloud Console, just go to Compute Engine > VM Instance > Click the instance to be edited > Click Edit > Uncheck "Enable Deletion Protection".

But for multiple VM's it is advisable to use the cloud shell instead. See the template below:

gcloud compute instances update [INSTANCE_NAME]
[--deletion-protection | --no-deletion-protection]

For example:

gcloud compute instances update vm-instance1 --no-deletion-protection

For more information about this topic, you can check this link. Toggling deletion protection

Upvotes: 3

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