Keeping your OCI tenancy tidy with OCI-SuperDelete 🗑️

My test tenancy for OCI is a bit of a mess and I needed to give it a tidy-up to remove resources that I no longer used – rather than go through every resource individually and delete it, I found a way to automate this using the superb OCI-SuperDelete script.

I needed to delete all of the resources within a specific OCI Compartment. This can all be achieved using a single command with the script!

The easiest way to run this is using OCI Cloud Shell, using the following commands, which do the following:

• Downloads the OCI-SuperDelete scripts from GitHub
• Runs the delete script for a specific OCI Compartment – you need to specify the OCID of the compartment

git clone https://github.com/AnykeyNL/OCI-SuperDelete.git
cd OCI-SuperDelete
python delete.py -dt -c [compartment_OCID]

Here is a short video of me using OCI-SuperDelete.

Here it is after the script has completed (which took less than five minutes).

This is a very powerful (and potentially dangerous tool 🔥), so please be careful when using it!

It includes far more advanced capabilities than I’ve demonstrated here, further details can be found at https://github.com/AnykeyNL/OCI-SuperDelete/blob/master/README.md

Happy tidying! 🧹.