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Manage Policy Lifecycle in Secure Workload Use Workspaces to Manage Policies Deleting Workspaces

Last updated: Jun 09, 2025

Deleting Workspaces

Only secondary (nonprimary) workspaces can be deleted. To switch a workspace to secondary, see Primary and Secondary Workspaces.

To delete a workspace:

  1. Choose Defend > Segmentation.

  2. In the list of scopes at the left side of the page, navigate to the scope containing the workspace to delete and click it.

  3. Click the workspace to delete.

  4. Click More button beside Secondary and choose Delete Workspace.

    Delete Workspace

If a workload or cluster in a workspace is referenced by a policy in another workspace as a result of a Provided Service, the dependent workspace cannot be deleted, and a list of the dependencies will be returned. This information can be used to fix the dependency.

List of items preventing the deletion of the workspace
Figure 1: List of Items Preventing the Deletion of the Workspace

In rare conditions there may be a cross dependency where Workspace A depends on a cluster in Workspace B and a Workspace B depends on a cluster in Workspace A. In this case, the individual policies or published policy versions (p*) must be deleted. The “delete restrictions” error provides links to all the policies so this can be accomplished.

To delete p* versions, see View, Compare, and Manage Analyzed Policy Versions or View, Compare, and Manage Enforced Policy Versions.

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