Delete a Design

Permanently delete a design you own, and understand what deletion does and does not affect.

Who can delete 🔗

The server allows the design’s owner or a provider administrator. Organization administrators, workspace owners, and collaborators with a share grant cannot delete a design (403 “unauthorized for the operation”). Layer5 Cloud hides its Delete action for roles without the Delete a Design permission, but the server decides by ownership, not by the key. To remove a design from a workspace without deleting it, use the workspace’s remove action instead.

Delete from Kanvas 🔗

Delete is a File menu action, disabled on an empty canvas. A confirmation reads Delete <name> design with the text Are you sure you want to delete <name>?. You confirm with a single button. There is no type-to-confirm step.

If you delete the open design, the editor resets to a new blank design. Deleting a different design from a list does not change the canvas. Kanvas shows no success message for a delete, while Layer5 Cloud shows <name> deleted.

What deletion affects 🔗

Item	Effect
Deployed resources	None. Deleting does not undeploy anything from clusters. Undeploy first if you want the resources gone.
Clones, Save as copies, merged-in components	Untouched. They are independent.
Share grants	Removed with the design.
Collaboration session	Ends when the canvas resets.
Published design	A delete-from-catalog workflow runs against the catalog repository. If it fails, the failure is logged only. The catalog request record stays.
Catalog clones made by others	Remain.

An event records who deleted which design.

Delete several designs 🔗

Layer5 Cloud’s catalog designs table offers multi-select delete with the prompt Are you sure that you want to delete <N> designs?. It issues one delete per selected design, so a partial failure shows per-design errors. Kanvas has no multi-select delete.

Errors 🔗

Response	Cause
400 “please provide a valid design ID”	The id is invalid.
404 “design not found”	The design does not exist. A missing row can also surface as 500 “failed to get design from database”.
403	You are not the owner or a provider administrator.