To delete a deployment, you use the Automation Service Broker Deployment API and if needed, the Automation Assembler IaaS API. You make a DELETE request to remove the deployment and clean up the associated resources from the cloud provider.

If using the Automation Service Broker Deployment service fails to delete the deployment, you can use the Automation Assembler IaaS service to force the deletion. The following procedure shows how to delete a deployment when both API services are used.

Prerequisites

  • Verify that all general prerequisites and prerequisites for the Automation Service Broker Deployment service have been satisfied. See Prerequisites for API Use Case Examples.
  • Verify that you have the Automation Assembler administrator service role.
  • Verify that you know the deployment that you want to delete.
  • Assign an API version variable for the IaaS API. 
    api_version_iaas='2021-07-15'
    Note: The Automation Service Broker Deployment service and the Automation Assembler Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) service have different API version values. You set the API version value for the Automation Service Broker Deployment service when you satisfied the general prerequisites.

Procedure

  1. List all deployments. 
    curl -X GET "$url/deployment/api/deployments?apiVersion=$api_version" -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" | jq "."
  2. Examine the response to find the name and ID of the deployment that you want to delete.
  3. Assign your deployment ID variable. 
    deployment_id='<your_deployment_id>'
  4. Get a list of actions for the deployment. 
    curl -X GET \
  "$url/deployment/api/deployments/$deployment_id/actions?apiVersion=$api_version" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" | jq "."
  5. Examine the response.
    • Confirm that you see the action "id": "Deployment.Delete".
    • "valid":true indicates that the action is valid for the deployment.
  6. Delete the deployment. 
    curl -X DELETE \
  "$url/deployment/api/deployments/$deployment_id?apiVersion=$api_version" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" | jq "."
  7. Examine the response for the ID of the deletion request.
  8. Assign the ID to the request ID variable. 
    request_id='<delete_request_id>'
  9. Get the status of the deployment request. 
    curl -X GET \
  "$url/deployment/api/requests/$request_id?apiVersion=$api_version" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" | jq "."
  10. Examine the response.
    • If the response shows "status": "SUCCESSFUL", then the delete request succeeded.
    • If the response shows "status": "FAILED" then the delete request may have failed due to a dependency such as an unreleased IP in an AD account. If you are certain that you want to remove the deployment and all related resources, you can choose to ignore the deletion failures and submit a delete request that uses the Automation Assembler IaaS service.
  11. (Optional) If you want to force deletion, use forceDelete=true in the Automation Assembler IaaS service request to delete the deployment. 
    curl -X DELETE \
  "$url/iaas/api/deployments/$deployment_id?forceDelete=true&apiVersion=$api_version_iaas" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" | jq "."
  12. (Optional) Repeat steps 7, 8, and 9.
  13. (Optional) Examine the response to verify that "status": "SUCCESSFUL" appears.

Example: Delete Your Deployment

This example shows how to delete a deployment with the Automation Service Broker Deployment service and when that deletion fails, force the deletion with the Automation Assembler IaaS service.

Assign variables.

Note: If your organization uses an API service that is hosted outside of the United States, your URL variable must include a country abbreviation. See Regional Endpoints for VMware Aria Automation APIs. 
$ url='https://api.mgmt.cloud.vmware.com'
$ api_version='2020-08-25'
$ api_version_iaas='2021-07-15'

List all deployments.

curl -X GET "$url/deployment/api/deployments?apiVersion=$api_version" -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" | jq "."

Examine the response to find the deployment that you want to delete.

    {
      "id": "164f2d4e-1755-491e-b0a0-583f0ed4ae3e",
      "name": "example_deployment",
      "description": "",
      ...
    },

Assign your deployment variable.

deployment_id='164f2d4e-1755-491e-b0a0-583f0ed4ae3e'

List the actions available for your deployment.

$ curl -X GET \
  "$url/deployment/api/deployments/$deployment_id/actions?apiVersion=$api_version" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" | jq "."

A snippet of the response shows the action "id": "Deployment.Delete" with "valid": true so you can delete the deployment. 

...
{
    "id": "Deployment.Delete",
    "name": "Delete",
    "displayName": "Delete",
    "description": "Delete a deployment",
    "valid": true,
    "actionType": "RESOURCE_ACTION"
  }
...

Delete the deployment.

curl -X DELETE \
  "$url/deployment/api/deployments/$deployment_id?apiVersion=$api_version" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" | jq "."

A snippet of the response shows the ID which is the request ID.

...
  "id": "d9541db3-2806-42aa-bde0-fb870d114833",
  "name": "Delete",
  "requestedBy": "[email protected]",
  "actionId": "Deployment.Delete",
  "deploymentId": "164f2d4e-1755-491e-b0a0-583f0ed4ae3e",
  "resourceIds": [
    ...
  ],
  "status": "PENDING",
...

Assign the request ID variable.

$ request_id='d9541db3-2806-42aa-bde0-fb870d114833'

Check the status of the request.

$ curl -X GET \
  "$url/deployment/api/requests/$request_id?apiVersion=$api_version" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" | jq "."

A snippet of the response shows that the request failed.

{
  "id": "d9541db3-2806-42aa-bde0-fb870d114833",
  "name": "Delete",
  "requestedBy": "[email protected]",
  "actionId": "Deployment.Delete",
  "deploymentId": "164f2d4e-1755-491e-b0a0-583f0ed4ae3e",
  "resourceIds": [
    ...
  ],
  "status": "FAILED",
...

If you are certain that you want to delete the deployment, force the deletion using the Automation Assembler IaaS service.

curl -X DELETE \
  "$url/iaas/api/deployments/$deployment_id?forceDelete=true&apiVersion=$api_version_iaas" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" | jq "."

Examine the response to get the new request ID.

{
  "progress": 0,
  "status": "INPROGRESS",
  "name": "Delete",
  "id": "a1b674a2-09aa-4b14-9459-35dddddb9bbc1",
  "selfLink": "/iaas/api/request-tracker/a1b674a2-09aa-4b14-9459-35dddddb9bbc1"
...

Assign the new request ID.

$ new_request_id='a1b674a2-09aa-4b14-9459-35dddddb9bbc1'

Use the Automation Service Broker Deployment service to check the status of the request.

$ curl -X GET \
  "$url/deployment/api/requests/$new_request_id?apiVersion=$api_version" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" | jq "."

Examine the response to verify that the action is in progress.

{
  "id": "a1b674a2-09aa-4b14-9459-35dddddb9bbc1",
  "name": "Delete",
  "requestedBy": "[email protected]",
  "actionId": "Deployment.Delete",
  "deploymentId": "164f2d4e-1755-491e-b0a0-583f0ed4ae3e",
  "resourceIds": [
  ...
  ],
  "status": "INPROGRESS",
...

Continue to check the status of the request.

$ curl -X GET \
  "$url/deployment/api/requests/$new_request_id?apiVersion=$api_version" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" | jq "."

The response shows when the deployment deletion request is successful.

{
  "id": "a1b674a2-09aa-4b14-9459-35dddddb9bbc1",
  "name": "Delete",
  "requestedBy": "[email protected]",
  "actionId": "Deployment.Delete",
  "deploymentId": "164f2d4e-1755-491e-b0a0-583f0ed4ae3e",
  "resourceIds": [
  ...
  ],
  "status": "SUCCESSFUL",
...