Cleaning Up

In this activity you will:

• Destroy the lab deployment

Destroy the lab deployment

When deploying infrastructure in the public cloud it is important to tear it down when you are done, otherwise you will end up paying for services that are no longer needed. We’ll need to go back to the deployment directory and use Terraform to destroy the infrastructure we deployed at the start of the lab.

Change into the deployment directory, and tell Terraform to destroy all of the resources it has created by running terraform destroy.

$ cd ~/terraform-iac-lab/deployment
$ terraform destroy

Warning

If you are doing the lab on your own, this is a critical step to stop being charged by GCP.

Qwiklabs will take care of destroying everything when the lab expires, but destroying cloud resources when they are no longer needed is a good habit to get in to.