Deleting server (cURL)

To delete your server with cURL, you need the server ID.

Issue the following command,specifying the ID for the server that you want to delete.

Delete a server with cURL request

$ curl -i https://$API_ENDPOINT/v2/$TENANT_ID/servers/<id> \
       -X DELETE \
       -H "X-Auth-Token: $AUTH_TOKEN"

Where id is the ID of the server that you want to delete.

If the delete operation was successful, it returns a HTTP 204 status code, as shown in the following output.

Delete a server with cURL response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:19:53 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: application/json
X-Compute-Request-Id: req-3bdafeb2-d4b1-41c3-ab19-d310f3f270d3
Server: Jetty(8.0.y.z-SNAPSHOT)

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