[Docs]: How do I stop/delete a function which is building through CLI?

[tanay-kondapally]

Nuclio version checks

• I have checked that the issue still exists on the latest versions of the docs here

Location of the documentation

https://github.com/nuclio/nuclio/tree/development/docs/tasks

Documentation problem

There seems to be no described way to stop a building function. I am unable to do the same via the dashboard as I am doing this using a GCP VM and using an external host IP.

Suggested fix for documentation

Please give me a command/argument through which I can force stop/delete or kill a building function as I am unable to do a new serverless deployment if the previous one failed.

[TomerShor]

Hey @tanay-kondapally,

The only way to stop a building function is to delete it.
This can be done via the UI, from the project functions screen, and we have also recently added an option to delete a building function using nuctl (our CLI) with the following command:

$ nuctl -n <namespace> delete function <function-name> --force

Notes:

• The --force flag will only work for kubernetes deployments, and not for docker deployments.
• This flag is available only for Nuclio >= 1.12.12

We will add documentation on the different nuctl commands and option in the near future.

[tanay-kondapally]

Thanks @TomerShor
I need more help on this although.

I can't seem to stop a function that is being provisioned in a docker deployment.
That is rendering me unable to deploy another serverless function as previous one failed.
And since --force flag doesn't work with docker deployment, I am unable to delete the building function which is stuck on building status.

How do I stop that via CLI? Or is there anyway to access UI in case of external host IP?