gcloud alpha compute instances delete

NAME
gcloud alpha compute instances delete - delete Compute Engine virtual machine instances
SYNOPSIS
gcloud alpha compute instances delete INSTANCE_NAMES [INSTANCE_NAMES …] [--no-graceful-shutdown] [--zone=ZONE] [--delete-disks=DISK_TYPE     | --keep-disks=DISK_TYPE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
DESCRIPTION
(ALPHA) gcloud alpha compute instances delete deletes one or more Compute Engine virtual machine instances.
EXAMPLES
To delete an instance called 'instance-1' in the zone 'us-central-2-a', run: 
gcloud alpha compute instances delete instance-1 --zone=us-central2-a
POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
INSTANCE_NAMES [INSTANCE_NAMES …]
Names of the instances to delete. For details on valid instance names, refer to the criteria documented under the field 'name' at: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/instances
FLAGS
--no-graceful-shutdown
Deletes the instance immediately without gracefully shutting it down. If a graceful shutdown is in progress, then the instance is forcefully stopped and deleted.
--zone=ZONE
Zone of the instances to delete. If not specified, you might be prompted to select a zone (interactive mode only). gcloud attempts to identify the appropriate zone by searching for resources in your currently active project. If the zone cannot be determined, gcloud prompts you for a selection with all available Google Cloud Platform zones.

To avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, the user can set the compute/zone property: 

gcloud config set compute/zone ZONE

A list of zones can be fetched by running: 

gcloud compute zones list

To unset the property, run: 

gcloud config unset compute/zone

Alternatively, the zone can be stored in the environment variable CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_ZONE.

At most one of these can be specified:
--delete-disks=DISK_TYPE
The types of disks to delete with instance deletion regardless of the disks' auto-delete configuration. When this flag is provided, the auto-delete bits on the attached disks are modified accordingly before the instance deletion requests are issued. For more information on disk auto-deletion, see Set the auto-delete state of a zonal persistent disk. DISK_TYPE must be one of:
all
All disk types.
boot
The first partition is reserved for the root filesystem.
data
A non-boot disk.
--keep-disks=DISK_TYPE
The types of disks to not delete with instance deletion regardless of the disks' auto-delete configuration. When this flag is provided, the auto-delete bits on the attached disks are modified accordingly before the instance deletion requests are issued. For more information on disk auto-deletion, see Set the auto-delete state of a zonal persistent disk. DISK_TYPE must be one of:
all
All disk types.
boot
The first partition is reserved for the root filesystem.
data
A non-boot disk.
GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
These flags are available to all commands: --access-token-file, --account, --billing-project, --configuration, --flags-file, --flatten, --format, --help, --impersonate-service-account, --log-http, --project, --quiet, --trace-token, --user-output-enabled, --verbosity.

Run $ gcloud help for details.

NOTES
This command is currently in alpha and might change without notice. If this command fails with API permission errors despite specifying the correct project, you might be trying to access an API with an invitation-only early access allowlist. These variants are also available: 
gcloud compute instances delete
 
gcloud beta compute instances delete