Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Deleting a NAT Gateway

Delete a NAT gateway from a Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) in Networking.

Prerequisite: Before you delete a NAT gateway, delete all route rules in the VCN that specify the gateway as the target. Deleting those rules stops the routing in the VCN to the gateway. If a route rule refers to the gateway, it can't be deleted until the reference is removed.

See Listing VCN Route Tables and Updating a VCN Route Table's Rules for more about finding and updating route rules that reference a gateway.

This operation is asynchronous. The NAT gateway's lifecycleState state changes to TERMINATING temporarily until the NAT gateway is removed.

    1. On the Virtual Cloud Networks list page, select the VCN that contains the gateway that you want to work with. If you need help finding the list page or the VCN, see Listing VCNs.
    2. On the details page, perform one of the following actions depending on the option that you see:
      • On the Gateways tab, go to the NAT Gateways section.
      • Under Resources, select NAT Gateways.
    3. From the Actions menu Actions Menu for the gateway that you want to delete, select Terminate.
    4. When prompted, confirm the deletion.

  • Use the network nat-gateway delete command and required parameters to delete a NAT gateway:

    oci network nat-gateway delete --nat-gateway-id nat-ocid  ... [OPTIONS]

    For a complete list of parameters and values for CLI commands, see the CLI Command Reference.

  • Run the DeleteNatGateway operation to delete a NAT gateway.