Vultr Customer Portal

1. Navigate to Products and select Databases.
2. Click the target database instance.
3. Click Settings and select Delete Managed Database.
4. Click Destroy Database Instance to remove the database.

Vultr API

1. List all the database instances by sending a GET request to the List Managed Databases endpoint and note the database ID. For example, 43b4c774-5dff-4ac0-a01f-78a23c2205b5.
   console

   $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/databases" \
       -X GET \
       -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"
   

2. Send a DELETE request to the Delete Managed Database endpoint and specify the database ID to delete the database.
   console

   $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/databases/database_id" \
       -X DELETE \
       -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"
   

   Visit the Delete Managed Database endpoint to view additional attributes to add to your request.

Vultr CLI

1. List all database instances and note the database ID. For instance, d6ac2a3c-92ea-43ef-8185-71a23e58ad8c.
   console

   $ vultr-cli database list --summarize
   

2. Delete the database by specifying a database ID.
   console

   $ vultr-cli database delete database_id
   

   Run vultr-cli database delete --help to view all options.

Terraform

1. Open your Terraform configuration and locate the Managed Database for Valkey resource.
2. Remove the resource block or destroy it with Terraform.
   terraform

   resource "vultr_database" "valkey" {
       label                   = "valkey-db-1"
       database_engine         = "valkey"
       database_engine_version = "7"
       region                  = "jnb"
       plan                    = "vultr-dbaas-startup-occ-mo-2-26-16"
   }
   
   # To delete, either remove this block from configuration
   # or run: terraform destroy -target vultr_database.valkey
   

3. Apply and observe the following output:

   Apply complete! Resources: 0 added, 0 changed, 1 destroyed.