Deleting a flavor

Often times, requirements change; there is a demand for more performance, or business needs change. Whatever be the reason, your existing flavors may not meet the needs of those consuming cloud resources. When a given flavor is no longer suitable, it will need to be deleted.

Tip

A flavor that is associated with a running instance cannot be deleted.

Getting ready

To change attributes of a flavor for Nova, you will need the following:

  • The openstack command-line client
  • The openrc file containing appropriate credentials
  • The name of the flavor to delete

How to do it…

The following commands are used to delete a flavor:

  1. First, list the flavors available:
    openstack flavor list

    This will bring back a list of flavors like the following:

  2. To delete ...

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