Deleting a Cluster

You can delete Kubernetes clusters that you no longer need.

Deleting a Cluster Using Cockpit

In the Projects dashboard, click the name of the project from which you want to delete a cluster.
The project details panel appears.
Click the Clusters tab.
The list of your clusters created within the project appears.
Hover over the row of the cluster you want to delete and click the action menu.
A drop-down menu appears.
Click Delete.
A confirmation dialog box appears.
Click Delete.
The cluster is deleted.

The deletion of a cluster can take up to a few minutes.

To delete one of your clusters, use the cluster delete command following this syntax:

Request sample

$ oks-cli cluster delete \
    --cluster-name NAME_OF_CLUSTER \
    --project-name NAME_OF_PROJECT \
    --output json

This command contains the following options that you need to specify:

cluster-name: The name of the cluster that you want to delete.
(optional) project-name: The name of the project containing the cluster.
(optional) output: The output format for the response (json | yaml). By default, the response format is JSON.

You must confirm the deletion of the cluster. The following message is returned to indicate your cluster is being deleted:

Result sample

"Cluster abcd1234-ef56-gh78-ijklmn1234 successfully deleted"

The deletion of a cluster can take up to a few minutes.

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