How to permanently delete Google managed VMs

Question

I am unable to permanently delete Google App Engine managed VMs I\'ve created. I\'ve deleted them multiple times both from the developer\'s console and by using the gcloud

Answer 1

I wanted to update this post with some of my solutions to deploying (with versions) and deleting instances on Google Compute Engine's managed VMs. Here's a solution I found for deleting the default GCE managed VM:

• Make sure you have the up-to-date GCE components. Run gcloud components update in the Google Cloud SDK Shell.
• In your app.yaml, remove the vm:true, resources: section, and manual scaling: section.
• Navigate to Compute -> App Engine -> Versions and record the . Mine looks like 20150722t1245032 with the words (default) indicating the default version.
• Deploy the application, set the default, and specify the default version. gcloud preview app deploy "...\app.yaml" --set-default --version=.
• Navigate to Compute -> Compute Engine -> VM instances. Select the default instance and delete.

I was also taught how to stop deploying additional instances:

• The key is to specify the version number gcloud preview app deploy "...\app.yaml" --set-default --version=. @ZacharyNewman was able to help me with this problem.

And finally, this is how to delete the additional versions of an instance:

• Navigate to Compute -> App Engine -> Versions and delete the versions you don't want.
• Navigate to Compute -> Compute Engine -> VM instances. Select the instances you don't want and delete.

Hope this helps!