Delete Role Instances
Updated: June 29, 2015
The Delete Role Instances operation deletes multiple role instances from a deployment in a cloud service.
The Delete Role Instances request is specified as follows. Replace <subscription-id> with your subscription ID, <cloudservice-name> with the name of your service, <deployment-slot> with staging or production, or <deployment-name> with the name of the deployment.
Method | Request URI |
|---|---|
POST | https://management.core.windows.net/<subscription-id>/services/hostedservices/<cloudservice-name>/deployments/<deployment-name>/roleinstances/ |
POST | https://management.core.windows.net/<subscription-id>/services/hostedservices/<cloudservice-name>/deploymentslots/<deployment-slot>/roleinstances/ |
URI Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
comp=delete | Required. Specifies that the roles instances defined in the request should be deleted from the deployment. |
The following table describes the request headers.
Request Header | Description |
|---|---|
x-ms-version | Required. Specifies the version of the operation to use for this request. This header should be set to 2013-08-01 or higher. |
<RoleInstances xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsazure" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <Name>name-of-role-instance</Name> </RoleInstances>
The following table describes the elements of the request body.
Element name | Description |
|---|---|
RoleInstances | Required. Specifies the set of role instances to delete. |
Name | Required. Specifies the name of a role instance to delete. |
The response includes an HTTP status code and a set of response headers.
A successful operation returns status code 202 (Accepted).
The response for this operation includes the following headers. The response may also include additional standard HTTP headers.
Response Header | Description |
|---|---|
x-ms-request-id | A value that uniquely identifies a request made against the management service. |
None.