Deleting items in the CLI

When you’re done with a VM, you’ll want to remove the floating IP and return it to the pool if you aren’t going to reuse it. Then you can delete an instance you no longer need.

We’re providing instructions for deleting routers, subnets, and networks, as well, though you can keep those and reuse them. Network infrastructure does not incur any SU charges to leave though it will count against Openstack resource quotas.

There are a very limited number of IPs available. Please return any you are not using!

Clean up what was created above OpenStack Command
Remove the public IP address from the instance openstack server remove floating ip your-unneeded-instance your.ip.number.here
Return the public IP address to the pool of IP numbers openstack floating ip delete your.ip.number.here
Delete an instance openstack server delete your-unneeded-instance

Note: You often want to create infrastructure such as networks, subnets, routers, security groups/rules, etc. only once and not delete them.

These entities are reusable by all members of your project except for any keypairs you’ve created.

Clean up other entities Openstack Command
Deleting network infrastructure
Disconnect the router from the gateway openstack router unset --external-gateway my-router-name
Delete the subnet from the router openstack router remove subnet my-router-name my-subnet-name
Delete the router openstack router delete my-router-name
Delete the subnet openstack subnet delete my-subnet-name
Delete the network openstack network delete my-network-name
Deleting security infrastructure
Delete a security group rule openstack security group delete secgroup-rule-name
Delete a security group openstack security group delete secgroup-name
Deleting other items
Deleting a keypair openstack keypair delete my-keypair-name