Deleting a placement group

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Updated at November 26, 2024

Delete a placement group.

You can work with placement groups with the partition placement strategy using the CLI and API.

Management console

CLI

Terraform

API

In the management console, select the folder the placement group belongs to.
In the list of services, select Compute Cloud.
In the left-hand panel, select Placement groups.
Go to the Virtual machine placement groups tab.
In the line with the placement group, click and select Delete.
In the window that opens, click Delete.

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud command line interface yet, install and initialize it.

The folder specified in the CLI profile is used by default. You can specify a different folder using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

View a list of VM instances in the placement group:

yc compute placement-group list-instances --name my-group

Result:

+----------------------+---------------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+-------------+
|          ID          |        NAME         |      ZONE ID      | STATUS  | EXTERNAL IP | INTERNAL IP |
+----------------------+---------------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+-------------+
| epdep2kq6dt5******** | instance-in-group-1 |   ru-central1-a   | RUNNING |             | 10.129.0.5  |
| epdlv1pp5401******** | instance-in-group-2 |   ru-central1-a   | RUNNING |             | 10.129.0.30 |
+----------------------+---------------------+-------------------+---------+-------------+-------------+

Delete the VM in the placement group:

yc compute instance delete --name instance-in-group-1
yc compute instance delete --name instance-in-group-2

Delete the placement group:

yc compute placement-group delete --name my-group

Check that the placement group was deleted:

yc compute placement-group list

Result:

+----+------+----------+
| ID | NAME | STRATEGY |
+----+------+----------+
+----+------+----------+

With Terraform, you can quickly create a cloud infrastructure in Yandex Cloud and manage it using configuration files. These files store the infrastructure description written in HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). If you change the configuration files, Terraform automatically detects which part of your configuration is already deployed, and what should be added or removed.

Terraform is distributed under the Business Source License. The Yandex Cloud provider for Terraform is distributed under the MPL-2.0 license.

For more information about the provider resources, see the documentation on the Terraform website or mirror website.

If you don't have Terraform, install it and configure the Yandex Cloud provider.

To delete a placement group created with Terraform:

Open the Terraform configuration file and delete the fragment with the placement group description.

Example placement group description in a Terraform configuration:
```
...
resource "yandex_compute_placement_group" "group1" {
  name        = "test-pg"
  folder_id   = "b1gia87mbaom********"
  description = "my description"
}
...
```
In the command line, go to the directory with the Terraform configuration file.
Check the configuration using this command:
```
terraform validate
```
If the configuration is correct, you will get this message:
```
Success! The configuration is valid.
```
Run this command:
```
terraform plan
```
The terminal will display a list of resources with parameters. No changes will be made at this step. If the configuration contains any errors, Terraform will point them out.
Apply the configuration changes:
```
terraform apply
```
Confirm the changes: type yes into the terminal and press Enter.

You can check the update using the management console or this CLI command:
```
yc compute placement-group list
```

Use the delete REST API method for the PlacementGroup resource or the PlacementGroupService/Delete gRPC API call.

Deleting a placement group

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