metalcloud-cli vm-instance-group delete

Delete a VM instance group

Synopsis

Delete a VM instance group from an infrastructure.

This command permanently removes a VM instance group and all its instances from the specified infrastructure. This action is irreversible and will terminate all running instances within the group.

WARNING: This operation cannot be undone. All data on the VM instances will be permanently lost unless backed up elsewhere.

ARGUMENTS: infrastructure_id The ID of the infrastructure containing the group vm_instance_group_id The ID of the VM instance group to delete

EXAMPLES:

Delete VM instance group 67890 from infrastructure 12345

metalcloud-cli vm-instance-group delete 12345 67890

Delete group using alias

metalcloud-cli vmg rm 12345 67890

metalcloud-cli vm-instance-group delete infrastructure_id vm_instance_group_id [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for delete

Options inherited from parent commands

  -k, --api_key string         MetalCloud API key
  -c, --config string          Config file path
  -d, --debug                  Set to enable debug logging
  -e, --endpoint string        MetalCloud API endpoint
  -f, --format string          Output format. Supported values are 'text','csv','md','json','yaml'. (default "text")
  -i, --insecure_skip_verify   Set to allow insecure transport
  -l, --log_file string        Log file path
  -v, --verbosity string       Log level verbosity (default "INFO")

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