Deleting an L7 load balancer

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Yandex Cloud

Updated at October 17, 2024

To delete an L7 load balancer:

Management console

CLI

Terraform

API

In the management console, select the folder where the load balancer was created.
Select Application Load Balancer.
Next to the load balancer name you need, click and select Delete.

To do this with multiple load balancers, select the load balancers to delete in the list and click Delete at the bottom of the screen.
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.

See the description of the CLI command for removing a load balancer:
```
yc alb load-balancer delete --help
```

Run this command:

yc alb load-balancer delete <load_balancer_name_or_ID>

Result:

done (1m10s)

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

To delete an L7 load balancer created with Terraform:

Open the Terraform configuration file and delete the fragment with the L7 load balancer description.

Sample L7 load balancer description in the Terraform configuration

...
resource "yandex_alb_load_balancer" "test-balancer" {
  name        = "<load_balancer_name>"
  network_id  = yandex_vpc_network.test-network.id

  allocation_policy {
    location {
      zone_id   = "ru-central1-a"
      subnet_id = yandex_vpc_subnet.test-subnet.id
    }
  }

  listener {
    name = "<listener_name>"
    endpoint {
      address {
        external_ipv4_address {
        }
      }
      ports = [ 9000 ]
    }
    http {
      handler {
        http_router_id = yandex_alb_http_router.test-router.id
      }
    }
  }
}
...

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 alb load-balancer list
```

Use the delete REST API method for the LoadBalancer resource or the LoadBalancerService/Delete gRPC API call.

Deleting an L7 load balancer

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