Deleting an L7 load balancer

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Updated at June 29, 2026

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To delete an L7 load balancer:

Management console

CLI

Terraform

API

In the management console, select the folder the load balancer is in.
Navigate to Application Load Balancer.
Click next to the load balancer and select Delete.

For multiple load balancers, select them 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 CLI yet, install and initialize it.

The folder used by default is the one specified when creating the CLI profile. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can also specify a different folder for any command using --folder-name or --folder-id. If you access a resource by its name, the search will be limited to the default folder. If you access a resource by its ID, the search will be global, i.e., through all folders based on access permissions.

See the description of the CLI command for deleting 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 do not have Terraform yet, install it and configure the Yandex Cloud provider.

To manage infrastructure using Terraform under a service account or user accounts (a Yandex account, a federated account, or a local user), authenticate using the appropriate method.

To delete an L7 load balancer created with Terraform:

Open the Terraform configuration file and delete the part describing the L7 load balancer.

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, navigate to the directory with the Terraform configuration file.
Check the configuration using this command:
```
terraform validate
```
If the configuration is valid, you will get this message:
```
Success! The configuration is valid.
```
Run this command:
```
terraform plan
```
You will see a list of resources and their properties. No changes will be made at this step. Terraform will show any errors in the configuration.
Apply the configuration changes:
```
terraform apply
```
Type yes and press Enter to confirm changes.

You can check updates in the management console or using this CLI command:
```
yc alb load-balancer list
```

Timeouts

The Terraform provider limits operations with Application Load Balancer load balancers to 10 minutes.

Operations in excess of this time will be interrupted.

How do I modify these limits?

Add the timeouts section to the load balancer description, e.g.:

resource "yandex_alb_load_balancer" "<load_balancer_name>" {
  ...
  timeouts {
    create = "60m"
    update = "60m"
    delete = "60m"
  }
}

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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