Vultr Customer Portal

1. Navigate to Products and select Orchestration.
2. Click Snapshots. Select the target snapshot from the list and click the delete icon to remove the snapshot.
3. Click Remove Snapshot to confirm.

Vultr API

1. Send a GET request to the List Snapshots endpoint to list all snapshots.
   console

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

2. Send a DELETE request to the Delete Snapshot endpoint specifying a snapshot ID to delete a snapshot.
   console

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

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

Vultr CLI

1. List all snapshots and note the target snapshot’s ID.
   console

   $ vultr-cli snapshot list
   

2. Delete a snapshot by specifying a snapshot ID.
   console

   $ vultr-cli snapshot delete snapshot_id
   

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

Terraform

1. Open your Terraform configuration where the snapshot resource was created.
2. Remove the vultr_snapshot resource block, or destroy it by target.
   terraformCopy

   resource "vultr_snapshot" "weekly" {
       instance_id = var.instance_id
       description = "Weekly-Snapshot-14-08-2024"
   }
   
   # To delete, either remove this block from configuration
   # or run: terraform destroy -target vultr_snapshot.weekly
   

3. Apply the configuration and observe the following output:

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