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url: https://ibee.ai/docs/api-reference/container-registry/empty-container-registry
last_updated: 2026-10-25
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# Empty registry

POST https://api.ibee.ai/v1/container-registry/registries/{registry_id}/empty

Permanently deletes every repository and image in a registry, so it can be deleted. A bounded run can stop early with 409 `detail.code: registry_empty_incomplete` (`retryable: true`); pause pushes and call again. Requires scope: container-registry.write.

```
# Example request with curl (set IBEE_API_TOKEN to a platform API token and WORKSPACE_ID to the workspace first).
# REGISTRY_ID: Registry ID
curl -X POST "https://api.ibee.ai/v1/container-registry/registries/$REGISTRY_ID/empty?workspace_id=$WORKSPACE_ID&confirm_registry_name=<confirm_registry_name>" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $IBEE_API_TOKEN"
```

Reference: https://ibee.ai/docs/api-reference/container-registry/empty-container-registry

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — IBEE platform API token. Production tokens start with `ibee_prod_key_`; development tokens start with `ibee_dev_key_`. Use a token only with its matching gateway environment.

## Servers

- `https://api.ibee.ai/v1` (Production, default)
- `https://api.ibee.co.in/v1` (Development)

## Request

### Path parameters

- `registry_id` (string, required) — Registry ID.

### Query parameters

- `workspace_id` (string, required) — The positive numeric workspace ID to scope this request to. Zero, negative, and non-numeric values are rejected.
- `confirm_registry_name` (string, required) — The registry's name, repeated to confirm a destructive call.

## Response

### 200

Registry emptied.

- `registry_id` (string, required) — ID of the registry.
- `registry_name` (string, required) — Name of the registry.
- `deleted_repository_count` (integer, required) — Number of repositories that were deleted.

## Errors

### 400 Bad Request Error

The request is invalid. From the gateway: `workspace_id_required` or `invalid_workspace_id`; on billable creates also `invalid_json_body` and selection codes such as `plan_id_required`, `invalid_site_id`, `compute_billing_term_required` or `invalid_block_storage_selection`. Otherwise the product service's `detail`.

- `error` (string, optional, nullable) — Machine-readable code from the gateway's authorization step, for example `invalid_api_key`, `insufficient_scope`, `organization_restricted`, `organization_suspended`, `verification_required` or `billing_denied`. The response descriptions list the codes for each status.
- `required_scope` (string, optional, nullable) — The scope the token lacks, with `insufficient_scope`.
- `billing_reason` (string, optional, nullable) — Billing's reason with `billing_denied`, passed through unchanged: for example `insufficient_balance`, `credit_limit_exceeded`, `initial_topup_required`, `resource_limit_reached` or `resource_usage_unavailable`.
- `billing_sku_code` (string, optional, nullable) — The SKU the billing admission checked, when there was one.
- `billing_evaluated_at` (string, optional, nullable) — When Billing made the decision, as Billing returned it.
- `admission_context_id` (string, optional, nullable) — Billing admission context for this request, derived from the token, workspace, route and `X-Idempotency-Key`, so a retry with the same key gets the same id.
- `detail` (ErrorDetail, optional) — Error detail from the product service.

### 401 Unauthorized Error

The API token is missing, malformed or unknown (`invalid_api_key`).

- `error` (string, optional, nullable) — Machine-readable code from the gateway's authorization step, for example `invalid_api_key`, `insufficient_scope`, `organization_restricted`, `organization_suspended`, `verification_required` or `billing_denied`. The response descriptions list the codes for each status.
- `required_scope` (string, optional, nullable) — The scope the token lacks, with `insufficient_scope`.
- `billing_reason` (string, optional, nullable) — Billing's reason with `billing_denied`, passed through unchanged: for example `insufficient_balance`, `credit_limit_exceeded`, `initial_topup_required`, `resource_limit_reached` or `resource_usage_unavailable`.
- `billing_sku_code` (string, optional, nullable) — The SKU the billing admission checked, when there was one.
- `billing_evaluated_at` (string, optional, nullable) — When Billing made the decision, as Billing returned it.
- `admission_context_id` (string, optional, nullable) — Billing admission context for this request, derived from the token, workspace, route and `X-Idempotency-Key`, so a retry with the same key gets the same id.
- `detail` (ErrorDetail, optional) — Error detail from the product service.

### 403 Forbidden Error

The token may not make this call. Gateway codes: `insufficient_scope` (with `required_scope`), `key_revoked`, `key_disabled`, `key_inactive`, `key_expired`, `unknown_route`, `workspace_not_allowed`, `principal_inactive`, `principal_not_member` and `principal_permission_denied`. On writes, also `organization_restricted` (an admin restricted the organization) and `verification_required` (the token's user has not completed identity verification). A product service may also refuse with `detail`.

- `error` (string, optional, nullable) — Machine-readable code from the gateway's authorization step, for example `invalid_api_key`, `insufficient_scope`, `organization_restricted`, `organization_suspended`, `verification_required` or `billing_denied`. The response descriptions list the codes for each status.
- `required_scope` (string, optional, nullable) — The scope the token lacks, with `insufficient_scope`.
- `billing_reason` (string, optional, nullable) — Billing's reason with `billing_denied`, passed through unchanged: for example `insufficient_balance`, `credit_limit_exceeded`, `initial_topup_required`, `resource_limit_reached` or `resource_usage_unavailable`.
- `billing_sku_code` (string, optional, nullable) — The SKU the billing admission checked, when there was one.
- `billing_evaluated_at` (string, optional, nullable) — When Billing made the decision, as Billing returned it.
- `admission_context_id` (string, optional, nullable) — Billing admission context for this request, derived from the token, workspace, route and `X-Idempotency-Key`, so a retry with the same key gets the same id.
- `detail` (ErrorDetail, optional) — Error detail from the product service.

### 404 Not Found Error

The requested resource was not found.

- `error` (string, optional, nullable) — Machine-readable code from the gateway's authorization step, for example `invalid_api_key`, `insufficient_scope`, `organization_restricted`, `organization_suspended`, `verification_required` or `billing_denied`. The response descriptions list the codes for each status.
- `required_scope` (string, optional, nullable) — The scope the token lacks, with `insufficient_scope`.
- `billing_reason` (string, optional, nullable) — Billing's reason with `billing_denied`, passed through unchanged: for example `insufficient_balance`, `credit_limit_exceeded`, `initial_topup_required`, `resource_limit_reached` or `resource_usage_unavailable`.
- `billing_sku_code` (string, optional, nullable) — The SKU the billing admission checked, when there was one.
- `billing_evaluated_at` (string, optional, nullable) — When Billing made the decision, as Billing returned it.
- `admission_context_id` (string, optional, nullable) — Billing admission context for this request, derived from the token, workspace, route and `X-Idempotency-Key`, so a retry with the same key gets the same id.
- `detail` (ErrorDetail, optional) — Error detail from the product service.

### 409 Conflict Error

The request conflicts with the current resource state.

- `error` (string, optional, nullable) — Machine-readable code from the gateway's authorization step, for example `invalid_api_key`, `insufficient_scope`, `organization_restricted`, `organization_suspended`, `verification_required` or `billing_denied`. The response descriptions list the codes for each status.
- `required_scope` (string, optional, nullable) — The scope the token lacks, with `insufficient_scope`.
- `billing_reason` (string, optional, nullable) — Billing's reason with `billing_denied`, passed through unchanged: for example `insufficient_balance`, `credit_limit_exceeded`, `initial_topup_required`, `resource_limit_reached` or `resource_usage_unavailable`.
- `billing_sku_code` (string, optional, nullable) — The SKU the billing admission checked, when there was one.
- `billing_evaluated_at` (string, optional, nullable) — When Billing made the decision, as Billing returned it.
- `admission_context_id` (string, optional, nullable) — Billing admission context for this request, derived from the token, workspace, route and `X-Idempotency-Key`, so a retry with the same key gets the same id.
- `detail` (ErrorDetail, optional) — Error detail from the product service.

### 422 Unprocessable Entity Error

The registry service rejected a parameter or the body (`detail` lists the invalid fields), or the selected storage plan is not sold here (`detail.code`, for example `billing_sku_unavailable` or `billing_selection_not_found`).

- `error` (string, optional, nullable) — Machine-readable code from the gateway's authorization step, for example `invalid_api_key`, `insufficient_scope`, `organization_restricted`, `organization_suspended`, `verification_required` or `billing_denied`. The response descriptions list the codes for each status.
- `required_scope` (string, optional, nullable) — The scope the token lacks, with `insufficient_scope`.
- `billing_reason` (string, optional, nullable) — Billing's reason with `billing_denied`, passed through unchanged: for example `insufficient_balance`, `credit_limit_exceeded`, `initial_topup_required`, `resource_limit_reached` or `resource_usage_unavailable`.
- `billing_sku_code` (string, optional, nullable) — The SKU the billing admission checked, when there was one.
- `billing_evaluated_at` (string, optional, nullable) — When Billing made the decision, as Billing returned it.
- `admission_context_id` (string, optional, nullable) — Billing admission context for this request, derived from the token, workspace, route and `X-Idempotency-Key`, so a retry with the same key gets the same id.
- `detail` (ErrorDetail, optional) — Error detail from the product service.

### 503 Service Unavailable Error

A service the request depends on did not answer. Gateway codes: `workspace_verification_unavailable`, `principal_verification_unavailable` and `principal_authorization_unavailable`; on billable creates also `billing_admission_timeout`, `billing_admission_unavailable`, `billing_admission_disabled`, `billing_admission_not_configured` and the catalog codes `compute_catalog_unavailable`, `compute_catalog_not_configured`, `product_catalog_timeout`, `product_catalog_unavailable`, `product_catalog_not_configured` and `unsupported_product_quote`. Otherwise the product service's `detail`.

- `error` (string, optional, nullable) — Machine-readable code from the gateway's authorization step, for example `invalid_api_key`, `insufficient_scope`, `organization_restricted`, `organization_suspended`, `verification_required` or `billing_denied`. The response descriptions list the codes for each status.
- `required_scope` (string, optional, nullable) — The scope the token lacks, with `insufficient_scope`.
- `billing_reason` (string, optional, nullable) — Billing's reason with `billing_denied`, passed through unchanged: for example `insufficient_balance`, `credit_limit_exceeded`, `initial_topup_required`, `resource_limit_reached` or `resource_usage_unavailable`.
- `billing_sku_code` (string, optional, nullable) — The SKU the billing admission checked, when there was one.
- `billing_evaluated_at` (string, optional, nullable) — When Billing made the decision, as Billing returned it.
- `admission_context_id` (string, optional, nullable) — Billing admission context for this request, derived from the token, workspace, route and `X-Idempotency-Key`, so a retry with the same key gets the same id.
- `detail` (ErrorDetail, optional) — Error detail from the product service.

## Types

### ErrorDetail

Error detail from the product service.

- string
- map from string to any
- list of any

## Examples

**Response**

```json
{
  "registry_id": "4f2a9c1e-7b3d-4e8a-9f10-2c5d6e7f8a9b",
  "registry_name": "<registry_name>",
  "deleted_repository_count": 1
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.ibee.ai/v1/container-registry/registries/registry_123/empty"

querystring = {"workspace_id":"710995","confirm_registry_name":"<confirm_registry_name>"}

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, params=querystring)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://api.ibee.ai/v1/container-registry/registries/registry_123/empty?workspace_id=710995&confirm_registry_name=%3Cconfirm_registry_name%3E';
const options = {method: 'POST', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.ibee.ai/v1/container-registry/registries/registry_123/empty?workspace_id=710995&confirm_registry_name=%3Cconfirm_registry_name%3E"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.ibee.ai/v1/container-registry/registries/registry_123/empty?workspace_id=710995&confirm_registry_name=%3Cconfirm_registry_name%3E")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.ibee.ai/v1/container-registry/registries/registry_123/empty?workspace_id=710995&confirm_registry_name=%3Cconfirm_registry_name%3E")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('POST', 'https://api.ibee.ai/v1/container-registry/registries/registry_123/empty?workspace_id=710995&confirm_registry_name=%3Cconfirm_registry_name%3E', [
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.ibee.ai/v1/container-registry/registries/registry_123/empty?workspace_id=710995&confirm_registry_name=%3Cconfirm_registry_name%3E");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = ["Authorization": "Bearer <token>"]

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.ibee.ai/v1/container-registry/registries/registry_123/empty?workspace_id=710995&confirm_registry_name=%3Cconfirm_registry_name%3E")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```