Can't delete backend service in GCE

11/5/2016

I want to free up some backend services quotas. In order to do so, I believe I first have to delete the instance group. However, when I tried to delete the instance group that uses the service, I get the following message:

The deletion of the instance group failed. Error: An unknown error has occurred in Compute Engine: "undefined". Error code: "undefined"

I have also tried to just delete the backend service but it will spring up another one. In addition, I have tried to delete the load balancer associating the service and that fail also. Any thoughts?

-- PLui
google-compute-engine
google-kubernetes-engine

1 Answer

11/5/2016

As reported in the documentation:

"To delete a backend service, you must first make sure that the backend service is not being referenced by any URL maps. If a URL map is currently referencing a backend service, you must delete the URL map to remove the reference."

-- Simone Tallevi-Diotallevi
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