Issues with Deleting Azure Deployment created with ARM Template Using CLI Commands

Question

I have created Azure infrastructure using an ARM template for a resource group with the Azure CLI command:

az deployment group create --resource-group demo --template-file main.json --parameters parameters.json --name serviceName

I tried deleting this deployment, as I would with terraform destroy, using the commands:

az deployment group delete --name serviceName

az deployment sub delete --name serviceName

However, it does nothing and returns no errors. When I check, the resources are still there. Does anyone have an idea of what might be wrong?

Answer 1

Hi,

Direct cmdlet for deleting all the resources that were deployed in a specific deployment using the arm template is not available. you can try the following azure cli code to delete the resources in the resource group

allresources=$(az deployment group show --resource-group 'RGName>' --name 'deployment name' --query "properties.outputResources[].id" -o tsv)
for resource in $allresources; do az resource delete --ids $resource; done

Hope this helps.

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