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How to Delete ISO Images for Vultr Instances

Updated on 29 September, 2025

Learn how to permanently remove custom ISO files from your Vultr account when theyre no longer needed.

Deleting ISO Images for Vultr instances allows you to completely remove the file from your account and make room for more images. Vultr only permits two ISO files at a time. Removing an ISO file doesn't affect any Cloud Compute instances you've provisioned using the image.

Follow this guide to delete ISO images for Vultr instances using the Vultr Customer Portal, API, CLI, or Terraform.

  • Vultr Customer Portal
  • Vultr API
  • Vultr CLI
  • Terraform
  1. Navigate to Products and select Orchestration. Then, choose ISOs.
  2. Select the target ISO image from the list and click the delete icon.
  3. Click Delete ISO to confirm.

  1. Send a GET request to the List ISOs endpoint to list all ISOs.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/iso" \
    -X GET \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  2. Send a DELETE request to the Delete ISO endpoint and specify an ISO ID to delete the ISO file.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/iso/iso_id" \
    -X DELETE \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

    Visit the Delete ISO endpoint to view additional attributes to add to your request.

  1. List all cloud compute instances and note the instance ID.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli instance list

  2. List all ISOs and note the ISO ID.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli iso list

  3. Delete an ISO by specifying an ISO ID.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli iso delete iso_id

    Run vultr-cli iso delete --help to view all options.

  1. Open your Terraform configuration where the ISO resource was defined.

  2. Remove the vultr_iso resource block, or destroy it by target.

    terraform 
    resource "vultr_iso" "custom_iso" {
    url = "https://example.com/remote_iso_file_url.iso"
}

# To delete, either remove this block from configuration
# or run: terraform destroy -target vultr_iso.custom_iso

  3. Apply the configuration and observe the following output:

    Apply complete! Resources: 0 added, 0 changed, 1 destroyed.

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