NAME
    gcloud compute instances delete - delete Compute Engine virtual machine
        instances

SYNOPSIS
    gcloud compute instances delete INSTANCE_NAMES [INSTANCE_NAMES ...]
        [--zone=ZONE] [--delete-disks=DISK_TYPE | --keep-disks=DISK_TYPE]
        [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG ...]

DESCRIPTION
    gcloud 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 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
     --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
          https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/persistent-disks#updateautodelete.
          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
          https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/persistent-disks#updateautodelete.
          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
    These variants are also available:

        $ gcloud alpha compute instances delete

        $ gcloud beta compute instances delete