Vultr Customer Portal

1. Navigate to Products and click Compute.
2. Click your target Cloud GPU instance to open its management page.
3. Click Destroy Server on the top-right navigation menu to destroy the server instance.
4. Check the confirmation prompt and click Destroy Server to apply changes.

Vultr API

1. Send a GET request to the List Instances endpoint and note the target instance’s ID.
   console

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

2. Send a DELETE request to the Delete Instance endpoint to destroy the instance.
   console

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

Vultr CLI

1. List all instances in your Vultr account and note the target instance’s ID.
   console

   $ vultr-cli instance list
   

2. Destroy the instance.
   console

   $ vultr-cli instance delete <instance_id>

Terraform

1. Open your Terraform configuration and locate the Cloud GPU instance resource.
2. Remove the resource block or destroy it by target.
   terraform

   resource "vultr_instance" "gpu" {
       label    = "gpu-instance-1"
       region   = "ewr"
       plan     = "vcg-1c-8gb"
       os_id    = 2284
       hostname = "gpu-instance-1"
   }
   
   # To delete, either remove this block from configuration
   # or run: terraform destroy -target vultr_instance.gpu
   

3. Apply the configuration and observe the following output:

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