Removing Unused PKS LoadBalancer IP allocations in NSX-T

I’m constantly building, removing, destroying, breaking and constantly tinkering in my lab, which unfortunately can leave behind a bit of technical mess. Most recently I’ve been doing some messing around in PKS and consequently had a load of load balancer VIPs no longer in use due to clusters being destroyed and / or recreated.

Unfortunately, there’s no way to remove these in the UI (for now, at least). But you can remove them using the API.:

[code language=“bash”]

curl -k -u : -X POST ‘https:///api/v1/pools/ip-pools/?action=RELEASE’ -H “X-Allow-Overwrite: true” -d {“allocation_id”:“10.10.10.2”}’ -H “Content-Type: application/json”

[/code]

This is great for the odd IP, but for me, I had 10’s of IP addresses I needed releasing. A quick and easy Bash script to the rescue!

[code language=“bash”]

for i in {2..254} do curl -k -u : -X POST ‘https:///api/v1/pools/ip-pools/?action=RELEASE’ -H “X-Allow-Overwrite: true” -d ‘{“allocation_id”:“10.10.10.’"$i”’"}’ -H “Content-Type: application/json” done [/code]

Modify the for loop for your environment. I typically have .1 as my default gateway.

Note : After releasing an IP, it seems to take a while before it’s reflected in the UI, therefore give it a few minutes.