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# delete

Delete a VM Auto Scaling group

## Usage

```
ionosctl vm-autoscaling group delete [flags]
```

## Aliases

For `vm-autoscaling` command:

```
[vmas vm-as vmasc vm-asc vmautoscaling]
```

For `group` command:

```
[g groups]
```

For `delete` command:

```
[d del rm]
```

## Description

Delete a VM Auto Scaling group. Deleting the group stops all autoscaling and tears down the group object; whether the group's replica VMs and their volumes are also removed follows the same rules the API applies at scale-in (see the scale-in action's deleteVolumes setting on the group). Pass --group-id to delete one group, or --all to delete every group in your account. You are prompted to confirm unless --force is set.

## Options

```
  -a, --all               Delete every VM Auto Scaling group in your account (mutually exclusive with --group-id)
  -u, --api-url string    Override default host URL. Preferred over the config file override 'autoscaling' and env var 'IONOS_API_URL' (default "https://api.ionos.com/autoscaling")
      --cols strings      Set of columns to be printed on output 
                          Available columns: [GroupId DatacenterId Name MinReplicas Replicas MaxReplicas Location State Metric Range ScaleInActionAmount ScaleInActionAmountType ScaleInActionCooldownPeriod ScaleInActionTerminationPolicy ScaleInActionDeleteVolumes ScaleInThreshold ScaleOutActionAmount ScaleOutActionAmountType ScaleOutActionCooldownPeriod ScaleOutThreshold Unit AvailabilityZone Cores CPUFamily RAM]
  -c, --config string     Configuration file used for authentication (default "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ionosctl/config.yaml")
  -D, --depth int         Level of detail for response objects (default 1)
  -F, --filters strings   Limit results to results containing the specified filter:KEY1=VALUE1,KEY2=VALUE2
  -f, --force             Force command to execute without user input
  -i, --group-id string   The ID of the single VM Auto Scaling group to delete
  -h, --help              Print usage
      --limit int         Maximum number of items to return per request (default 50)
      --no-headers        Don't print table headers when table output is used
      --offset int        Number of items to skip before starting to collect the results
      --order-by string   Property to order the results by
  -o, --output string     Desired output format [text|json|api-json] (default "text")
      --query string      JMESPath query string to filter the output
  -q, --quiet             Quiet output
  -t, --timeout int       Timeout in seconds for --wait and other wait operations (default 600)
  -v, --verbose count     Increase verbosity level [-v, -vv, -vvv]
  -w, --wait              Wait for the resource to reach AVAILABLE state after the command completes. No-op for list commands
```

## Examples

```
ionosctl vm-autoscaling group delete (--group-id GROUP_ID|--all)
```


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