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title: "How to delete an instance group"
description: "Deleting a group of virtual machines is an irreversible and irreversible operation, it is impossible to restore a deleted group. Together with the group, the Network Load Balancer target group, virtual machines and disks are deleted. To delete a group of virtual machines, open the catalog page in the management console. Select the Yandex Compute service Cloud. On the Virtual Machines page, go to the Virtual Machine Groups tab. Select Delete."

Delete an instance group

Warning

Deleting an instance group is an operation that cannot be canceled or reversed. You cannot restore a deleted group. Along with the group, you delete the Network Load Balancer target group, instances, and disks.

To delete an instance group:

  1. Open the folder page in the management console.

  2. Select Yandex Compute Cloud.

  3. On the Virtual machines page, go to the Instance groups tab.

  4. Click for the group you want to delete and select Delete.

If you don't have the Yandex.Cloud command line interface yet, install and initialize it.

The folder specified in the CLI profile is used by default. You can specify a different folder using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

  1. See the description of the CLI's delete instance group command:

    $ yc compute instance-group delete --help

  2. Get a list of instance groups in the default folder:

    yc compute instance-group list
+----------------------+-----------------------+------+
|          ID          |         NAME          | SIZE |
+----------------------+-----------------------+------+
| amc65sbgfqeqf00m02sc | first-instance-group  |    2 |
+----------------------+-----------------------+------+

  3. Select the group ID or NAME (for example, first-instance-group).

  4. Delete the instance group:

    $ yc compute instance-group delete --name first-instance-group

    Instance Groups starts the operation to delete the instance group.

Use the delete.

To request a list of available groups, use the method listInstances.

Read more about Terraform in the documentation.

If you created an instance group using Terraform, you can delete it:

  1. In the command line, go to the directory with the Terraform configuration file.

  2. Delete resources using the command:

    $ terraform destroy

    Alert

    Terraform deletes all the resources that you created in the current configuration, such as clusters, networks, subnets, and VMs.

  3. Confirm the deletion of resources.