Deleting a resource group
You can't delete the default resource group that's added to your account. Besides the default one, you can only delete a resource group if it doesn't contain any resources.
Deleting a resource group in the console
To delete a resource group that doesn't contain resources and is not your default, complete the following steps:
- In the IBM Cloud console, go to Manage > Account > Account resources > Resource groups.
- Click the Actions icon > Delete.
Deleting a resource group by using the CLI
To delete a resource group that doesn't contain resources and is not your default, run the ibmcloud resource group-delete
. For example,
delete resource group example-group
:
ibmcloud resource group-delete example-group -f
Deleting a resource group by using the API
You can programmatically delete a resource group by calling the Resource Manager API as shown in the following sample request. For detailed information about the API, see Resource Manager API.
curl -X DELETE \
https://resource-controller.cloud.ibm.com/v2/resource_groups/09f8c1c0742c493f80baaf7835212345 \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer <IAM_TOKEN>'
-H 'Content-Type: application/json'
String id = '09f8c1c0742c493f80baaf7835212345';
DeleteResourceGroupOptions options = new DeleteResourceGroupOptions.Builder().id(id).build();
Response<Void> response = service.deleteResourceGroup(options).execute();
System.out.println(response):
const params = {
id: '09f8c1c0742c493f80baaf7835212345'
};
service.deleteResourceGroup(params).then(response => {
console.log(response)
}).catch(err => {});
delete_resource_group(self,
id: str,
**kwargs
) -> DetailedResponse
ID := "09f8c1c0742c493f80baaf7835212345"
deleteResourceGroupOptionsModel := service.NewDeleteResourceGroupOptions(ID)
detailedResponse, err := service.DeleteResourceGroup(deleteResourceGroupOptionsModel)
Deleting a resource group by using Terraform
Before you can delete a resource group by using Terraform, make sure that you have completed the following:
- Install the Terraform CLI and configure the IBM Cloud Provider plug-in for Terraform. For more information, see the tutorial for Getting started with Terraform on IBM Cloud®. The plug-in abstracts the IBM Cloud APIs that are used to complete this task.
- Create a Terraform configuration file that is named
main.tf
. In this file, you define resources by using HashiCorp Configuration Language. For more information, see the Terraform documentation.
Use the following steps to delete a resource group:
The resource group can be deleted only if there are no resources in it.
-
You can delete the resource group by removing the following code block from your Terraform
main.tf
file. You must have created theresourceGroup
using the Terraform file.resource "ibm_resource_group" "resourceGroup" { name = "prod" }
For more information, see the argument reference details on the Terraform Resource Management page.
-
After you finish building your configuration file, initialize the Terraform CLI. For more information, see Initializing Working Directories.
terraform init
-
Provision the resources from the
main.tf
file. For more information, see Provisioning Infrastructure with Terraform.-
Run
terraform plan
to generate a Terraform execution plan to preview the proposed actions.terraform plan
-
Run
terraform apply
to create the resources that are defined in the plan.terraform apply
-
You can also delete a resource group by running the following terraform destroy
command.
terraform destroy -target RESOURCE_TYPE.NAME -target RESOURCE_TYPE2.NAME