Dissociate a public IP from a resource

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You can dissociate a public IP that you have associated with a VM (Virtual Machine) or with a network interface.

To dissociate a public IP from a NAT gateway, you must delete the NAT gateway.

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Once detached, the public IP is still allocated to your account and can be associated again. If you no longer need this public IP, you can release it.

Permissions

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This action requires the following IAM (Identity and Access Management) permissions:

• compute.publicIp.update

Console

Console

1. From the left-hand side menu, click Network → Public IP.
2. Identify the public IP you want to dissociate, then from the list of actions, click Dissociate.
   
   A new "Dissociation of the public IP" dialog box appears.
3. Click Dissociate the public IP. The public IP is dissociated.
   A confirmation message "The dissociation of the public IP has been completed" appears.

API

API

The PUT /compute/spaces/{spaceId}/publicIps/{id}/unlink command dissociates a public IP from the associated resource.

Example request: Dissociation of a public IP

Terraform

Terraform

The Terraform documentation is available on the Numspot registry ↗.