Deleting Applications

Deleting an application

To delete an application, use the console:

1. Under Applications, select the application and open Application Overview.
2. Expand the Danger Zone section at the bottom of the page.
3. Click Delete application.

This removes all production deployments and test resources, and with them the application itself: its instances, stored application packages and deploy keys. Remove the CI job that builds and deploys application packages, if any, so it does not deploy the application again.

To take a single production deployment offline instead, click Deactivate next to it in the Danger Zone. A deactivated deployment that is still listed in deployment.xml reappears on the next deployment. To remove it permanently, follow the steps in the next section.

Deleting an instance / region

To remove an instance or a deployment to a region from an application:

1. Remove the region from prod, or the instance from deployment in deployment.xml:

    <deployment version="1.0">
        <prod>
            <region>aws-us-east-1c</region>
            <!-- Removing the deployment in the region 'aws-eu-west-1a' -->
            <!--region>aws-eu-west-1a</region-->
        </prod>
    </deployment>
   

2. Add or modify validation-overrides.xml, allowing Vespa Cloud to remove production instances:

   <validation-overrides>
       <allow until="2021-03-01" comment="Remove region/instance ...">deployment-removal</allow>
       <!-- If the region was part of a global endpoint/instance had a global endpoint: -->
       <allow until="2021-03-01" comment="Remove region/instance ...">global-endpoint-change</allow>
   </validation-overrides>
   

3. Build and deploy the application package.