Deleting a pipeline

Learn how to delete pipelines.

In order to delete a pipeline, you can either use the CLI or the Python SDK:

CLI

zenml pipeline delete <PIPELINE_NAME>

Python SDK

from zenml.client import Client

Client().delete_pipeline(<PIPELINE_NAME>)

Deleting a pipeline does not automatically delete any of its associated runs or artifacts.

If you want to delete multiple pipelines at once, you might find the Python SDK preferable. If you have pipelines with the same prefix, you will need to pass in the id of each pipeline separately so ZenML is able to identify them. In this case, you could use a script like the following:

from zenml.client import Client

client = Client()

# Get the list of pipelines that start with "test_pipeline"
# use a large size to ensure we get all of them
pipelines_list = client.list_pipelines(name="startswith:test_pipeline", size=100)

target_pipeline_ids = [p.id for p in pipelines_list.items]

print(f"Found {len(target_pipeline_ids)} pipelines to delete")

confirmation = input("Do you really want to delete these pipelines? (y/n): ").lower()

if confirmation == 'y':
    print(f"Deleting {len(target_pipeline_ids)} pipelines")
    for pid in target_pipeline_ids:
        client.delete_pipeline(pid)
    print("Deletion complete")
else:
    print("Deletion cancelled")

Delete a pipeline run

To delete a pipeline run, you can use the following CLI command or the client:

CLI

zenml pipeline runs delete <RUN_NAME_OR_ID>

Python SDK

from zenml.client import Client

Client().delete_pipeline_run(<RUN_NAME_OR_ID>)