How to Destroy a VPC

Validated on 28 Apr 2020 • Posted on 7 Apr 2019

A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a private network interface for collections of DigitalOcean resources. VPC networks provide a more secure connection between resources because the network is inaccessible from the public internet and other VPC networks. Traffic within a VPC network doesn’t count against bandwidth usage.

Deleting a VPC network permanently and irreversibly destroys the network.

You can only destroy a VPC network that has no resources in it. You can either destroy the resources or safely migrate Droplets, volumes, and databases out of a VPC network first.

Delete a VPC Network Using Automation

How to delete a VPC network using the DigitalOcean CLI

To delete a VPC network via the command-line, follow these steps:

Install doctl, the DigitalOcean command-line tool.
Create a personal access token, and save it for use with doctl.
Use the token to grant doctl access to your DigitalOcean account.
```
              doctl auth init
            
```
Finally, delete a VPC network with doctl vpcs delete. The basic usage looks like this, but you'll want to read the usage docs for more details:
```
              doctl vpcs delete <id> [flags]
            
```

How to delete a VPC network using the DigitalOcean API

To delete a VPC network using the DigitalOcean API, follow these steps:

Create a personal access token, and save it for use with the API.

Send a DELETE request to https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/vpcs/{vpc_id}

cURL

To delete a VPC network with cURL, call:


                curl -X DELETE \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN" \
  "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/vpcs/e0fe0f4d-596a-465e-a902-571ce57b79fa"

Go

Go developers can use Godo, the official DigitalOcean V2 API client for Go. To delete a VPC network with Godo, use the following code:


                import (
    "context"
    "os"

    "github.com/digitalocean/godo"
)

func main() {
    token := os.Getenv("DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN")

    client := godo.NewFromToken(token)
    ctx := context.TODO()

    resp, err := client.VPCs.Delete(ctx, "5a4981aa-9653-4bd1-bef5-d6bff52042e4")
}

Delete a VPC Network Using the Control Panel

To destroy a VPC network, click Networking in the main menu, then click the VPC tab. In the VPC Networks tab, click the More menu of the VPC network you want to destroy and select Edit Settings.

In the VPC network’s Settings tab, click Destroy VPC. In the confirmation window, click Confirm to destroy the VPC network.