Policy Definitions - Delete

Service:

Policy

API Version:

2023-04-01

Deletes a policy definition in a subscription.
This operation deletes the policy definition in the given subscription with the given name.

DELETE https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/policyDefinitions/{policyDefinitionName}?api-version=2023-04-01

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
policyDefinitionName	path	True	string	The name of the policy definition to delete. Regex pattern: ^[^<>*%&:\?.+/]*[^<>*%&:\?.+/ ]+$
subscriptionId	path	True	string uuid	The ID of the target subscription. The value must be an UUID.
api-version	query	True	string	The API version to use for this operation.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK		OK
204 No Content		No Content
Other Status Codes	CloudError	Error response describing why the operation failed.

Security

azure_auth

Azure Active Directory OAuth2 Flow.

Type: oauth2
Flow: implicit
Authorization URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize

Scopes

Name	Description
user_impersonation	impersonate your user account

Examples

Delete a policy definition

Sample request

HTTP

DELETE https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/ae640e6b-ba3e-4256-9d62-2993eecfa6f2/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/policyDefinitions/ResourceNaming?api-version=2023-04-01

Python

from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential

from azure.mgmt.resource import PolicyClient

"""
# PREREQUISITES
    pip install azure-identity
    pip install azure-mgmt-resource
# USAGE
    python delete_policy_definition.py

    Before run the sample, please set the values of the client ID, tenant ID and client secret
    of the AAD application as environment variables: AZURE_CLIENT_ID, AZURE_TENANT_ID,
    AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET. For more info about how to get the value, please see:
    https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/develop/howto-create-service-principal-portal
"""


def main():
    client = PolicyClient(
        credential=DefaultAzureCredential(),
        subscription_id="ae640e6b-ba3e-4256-9d62-2993eecfa6f2",
    )

    client.policy_definitions.delete(
        policy_definition_name="ResourceNaming",
    )


# x-ms-original-file: specification/resources/resource-manager/Microsoft.Authorization/stable/2023-04-01/examples/deletePolicyDefinition.json
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

To use the Azure SDK library in your project, see this documentation. To provide feedback on this code sample, open a GitHub issue

Sample response

Status code:

200

Status code:

204

Definitions

Name	Description
CloudError	An error response from a policy operation.
ErrorAdditionalInfo	The resource management error additional info.
ErrorResponse	Error Response

CloudError

An error response from a policy operation.

Name	Type	Description
error	ErrorResponse	Error Response Common error response for all Azure Resource Manager APIs to return error details for failed operations. (This also follows the OData error response format.)

ErrorAdditionalInfo

The resource management error additional info.

Name	Type	Description
info	object	The additional info.
type	string	The additional info type.

ErrorResponse

Error Response

Name	Type	Description
additionalInfo	ErrorAdditionalInfo[]	The error additional info.
code	string	The error code.
details	ErrorResponse[]	The error details.
message	string	The error message.
target	string	The error target.