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This reference is generated from the platform API contract and is still under review. Operations, fields, and descriptions can change before publication.
Delete a network interface (port)
Deletes the selected Network Interface after a type-the-name confirmation in the UI. Deletion releases
the reserved fixed IP back to the subnet pool, disassociates (but does not release) any floating IP,
and removes the port from the scoped list. A port with a bound device cannot be deleted — the UI
states "Detach the device before deleting this port" — so the device association is a hard dependency
blocker. Failure leaves the port in a recoverable, queryable state.
Validation: the port must exist and be visible in scopeId → ERR_NOT_FOUND otherwise; device
must be null (no instance / load balancer / router / DHCP binding) → ERR_DEPENDENCY_BLOCKED when a
device is still attached; destructive-action permission (owner|admin|contributor) is enforced;
resource locks and retention rules are checked before acceptance.
Async & state: Asynchronous — 202 with an Operation record. Port status transitions current →
deleting → removed; resource.updated SSE frames carry the status patch and a terminal
resource-removed frame once the read model drops the port. The Operation transitions queued →
running → succeeded|failed.
Errors: 401 unauthenticated; 403 when the caller lacks destructive-action permission on the
scope; 404 unknown port; 409 DEPENDENCY_BLOCKED while a device is attached or a lock/retention rule
blocks deletion; 412 when If-Match does not match the current ETag; 500 on backend failure.
Idempotency/Concurrency: Idempotency-Key recommended — replaying the same key returns the
original 202 Operation. If-Match recommended; a stale ETag yields 412 PRECONDITION_FAILED. Deleting
an already-deleting port replays the in-flight Operation rather than erroring.
bearerTokenAuthorizationBearer <token>An API token (pc_live_…) or a service-account key (sak_live_…), created in Identity & Access Management and sent as Authorization: Bearer <token>. Requests are rate limited per credential and per tenant: every response carries X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining and X-RateLimit-Reset, and a refused request gets 429 RATE_LIMITED with Retry-After.
scopeId*stringOpaque ownership+authorization scope resolving to tenant + subscription + project.
networkInterfaceId*stringNetwork interface (port) identifier.
Idempotency-Key?stringOptional; recommended for safe retries. When sent, the same key+body within 24h replays the original result and the same key with a different body is 409 CONFLICT; keys are unique per tenant. When an API token or service-account (bearer) caller omits it, the request is applied once with no replay protection (a retry may apply it again). A console session gets one from the edge.
uuidIf-Match?stringETag for optimistic concurrency on mutations/deletes; mismatch results in 412.
Deletion accepted; returns the long-running Operation tracking port removal.
application/json- response
A long-running operation record. GET /operations/{operationId} returns its current state.
id*stringOperation identifier, unique platform-wide.
action*stringCanonical action id that started this operation, e.g. compute.instance.create.
state*OperationStateState machine for long-running operations. PENDING and RUNNING are transitional; the rest are terminal.
"PENDING""RUNNING""SUCCEEDED""FAILED""CANCELLED"resourceKind?|Kind of the target resource (matches RealtimeEvent.kind), null for resource-less actions.
resourceId?|Identifier of the target resource; null until the resource is allocated.
resourceName?|Human-readable name of the target resource captured when the operation was opened; null when unknown or the resource has been deleted (clients fall back to resourceId).
principalId?|Subject id (user id/email or service-account id) of the actor that initiated this operation, captured at the create chokepoint; null on internal/worker paths with no request-scoped principal or for historical rows. This is the real actor the Activity feed renders.
sourceIp?|Source IP address of the request that initiated this operation; null when unavailable (internal/worker paths, historical rows).
progressPercent?|Best-effort progress; null when the action does not report progress.
0 <= value <= 100error?|nullPopulated only when state is FAILED (or CANCELLED with partial rollback notes).
warning?|nullNon-fatal degradation recorded on an operation that still SUCCEEDED - the primary action completed but something explicitly requested could not be delivered (e.g. publicIp was requested at instance create but no floating IP could be assigned). On a CANCELLED create it reports that the provider resource had already been created and was kept (live and billed until deleted; details.disposition = left_in_place). Same code+message shape as error so clients render both uniformly; null when the operation ran without degradation.
startedAt?|When the worker began executing; null while PENDING.
finishedAt?|When a terminal state was reached; null while transitional.
createdAt*stringupdatedAt*stringcurl -X DELETE "https://example.com/scopes/string/network/network-interfaces/string"{ "id": "string", "action": "string", "state": "PENDING", "resourceKind": "string", "resourceId": "string", "resourceName": "string", "principalId": "string", "sourceIp": "string", "progressPercent": 0, "error": { "code": "string", "message": "string", "field": "string", "details": {}, "retryable": false }, "warning": { "code": "string", "message": "string", "field": "string", "details": {}, "retryable": false }, "startedAt": "string", "finishedAt": "string", "createdAt": "string", "updatedAt": "string"}