Deleting a Load Balancer

You can delete a load balancer that you no longer need at any time. Deleting a load balancer does not modify the state of its back-end virtual machines (VMs).

Deleting a Load Balancer Using Cockpit v2

Before you begin: Ensure the security groups of your back-end VMs allow flows coming from another source than the load balancer.

The DNS name will be deleted.

  1. Click inside the Load Balancers dashboard to make checkboxes appear.

  2. Check the box of the load balancer you want to delete.

    Multiselection is available.

    The load balancer is selected and an action menu appears.

  3. Click IconTerminate Delete.
    A confirmation dialog box appears.

  4. In the confirmation dialog box, type "DELETE" in the text field and click Delete.
    The load balancer is deleted.

Deleting a Load Balancer Using Cockpit v1

Cockpit v1 is no longer fixed nor supported. For more information, see End-of-Life Policy.

Before you begin: Ensure the security groups of your back-end instances allow flows coming from another source than the load balancer.

  1. Click Services > Load Balancers.

  2. Click the load balancer you want to delete.
    The load balancer is selected.

  3. Click Delete .
    A confirmation dialog box appears.

  4. Click Delete to validate.
    The load balancer is deleted and no longer appears on the Load Balancers page.

Deleting a Load Balancer Using OSC CLI

Before you begin: Ensure the security groups of your back-end VMs allow flows coming from another source than the load balancer.

The DeleteLoadBalancer command deletes a specified load balancer.

Request sample
$ osc-cli api DeleteLoadBalancer --profile "default" \
    --LoadBalancerName "example-lbu"

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

  • DryRun: (optional) If true, checks whether you have the required permissions to perform the action.

  • LoadBalancerName: The name of the load balancer you want to delete.

The DeleteLoadBalancer command returns the following elements:

  • ResponseContext: Information about the context of the response.

    • RequestId: The ID of the request.

Result sample
{
  "ResponseContext": {
    "RequestId": "0475ca1e-d0c5-441d-712a-da55a4175157"
  }
}

Deleting a Load Balancer Using AWS CLI

Before you begin: Ensure the security groups of your back-end instances allow flows coming from another source than the load balancer.

To delete a load balancer, use the delete-load-balancer command following this syntax:

Request sample
$ aws elb delete-load-balancer \
    --profile YOUR_PROFILE \
   --load-balancer-name My-load-balancer \
    --endpoint https://lbu.eu-west-2.outscale.com

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

  • (optional) profile: The named profile you want to use, created when configuring AWS CLI. For more information, see Installing and Configuring AWS CLI.

  • load-balancer-name: The name of the load balancer.

  • endpoint: The endpoint corresponding to the Region you want to send the request to.

The specified load balancer is deleted.

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Corresponding API Methods

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