Delete vSphere Cluster

Prepare to delete a self-managed workload cluster

A self-managed workload cluster cannot delete itself. If your workload cluster is self-managed, you must create a bootstrap cluster and move the cluster lifecycle services to the bootstrap cluster before deleting the workload cluster.

If you did not make your workload cluster self-managed, as described in Make New Cluster Self-Managed, see Delete the workload cluster.

Create a bootstrap cluster:
The bootstrap cluster will host the Cluster API controllers that reconcile the cluster objects marked for deletion. To avoid using the wrong kubeconfig, the following steps use explicit kubeconfig paths and contexts.
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```
dkp create bootstrap --kubeconfig $HOME/.kube/config
```
The output resembles this example:
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```
✓ Creating a bootstrap cluster
✓ Initializing new CAPI components
```

Move the Cluster API objects from the workload to the bootstrap cluster: The cluster lifecycle services on the bootstrap cluster are ready, but the workload cluster configuration is on the workload cluster. The move command moves the configuration, which takes the form of Cluster API Custom Resource objects, from the workload to the bootstrap cluster. This process is also called a Pivot.

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dkp move \
    --from-kubeconfig ${CLUSTER_NAME}.conf \
    --from-context konvoy-${CLUSTER_NAME}-admin@konvoy-${CLUSTER_NAME} \
    --to-kubeconfig $HOME/.kube/config \
    --to-context kind-konvoy-capi-bootstrapper

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INFO[2021-06-09T11:47:11-07:00] Running pivot command                         fromClusterKubeconfig=aws-example.conf fromClusterContext= src="move/move.go:83" toClusterKubeconfig=/home/clusteradmin/.kube/config toClusterContext=
INFO[2021-06-09T11:47:36-07:00] Pivot operation complete.                     src="move/move.go:108"
INFO[2021-06-09T11:47:36-07:00] You can now view resources in the moved cluster by using the --kubeconfig flag with kubectl. For example: kubectl --kubeconfig=/home/clusteradmin/.kube/config get nodes  src="move/move.go:155"

Use the cluster lifecycle services on the workload cluster to check the workload cluster status:

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dkp describe cluster --kubeconfig $HOME/.kube/config -c ${CLUSTER_NAME}

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NAME                                                                READY  SEVERITY  REASON  SINCE  MESSAGE
Cluster/d2iq-e2e-cluster_name-1                                     True                     13h
├─ClusterInfrastructure - VSphereCluster/d2iq-e2e-cluster_name-1    True                     13h
├─ControlPlane - KubeadmControlPlane/d2iq-control-plane             True                     13h
│ ├─Machine/d2iq--control-plane-7llgd                               True                     13h
│ ├─Machine/d2iq--control-plane-vncbl                               True                     13h
│ └─Machine/d2iq--control-plane-wbgrm                               True                     13h
└─Workers
    └─MachineDeployment/d2iq--md-0                                  True                     13h
    ├─Machine/d2iq--md-0-74c849dc8c-67rv4                           True                     13h
    ├─Machine/d2iq--md-0-74c849dc8c-n2skc                           True                     13h
    ├─Machine/d2iq--md-0-74c849dc8c-nkftv                           True                     13h
    └─Machine/d2iq--md-0-74c849dc8c-sqklv                           True                     13h

After moving the cluster lifecycle services to the workload cluster, remember to use dkp with the workload cluster kubeconfig. Use DKP with the bootstrap cluster to delete the workload cluster.

Wait for the cluster control-plane to be ready:

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kubectl --kubeconfig $HOME/.kube/config wait --for=condition=controlplaneready "clusters/${CLUSTER_NAME}" --timeout=60m

The output should be similar to this example:

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d2iq-e2e-cluster-1-control-plane/vsphere-example condition met

Persistent Volumes (PVs) are not deleted automatically by design in order to preserve your data. However, they take up storage space if not deleted. You must delete PVs manually. Information for backup of a cluster and PVs is on the page in documentation called Back up your Cluster's Applications and Persistent Volumes .

With Vsphere clusters, dkp delete doesn't delete the virtual disks backing the PVs for DKP add ons. Therefore internal VMware cluster runs out of storage eventually. Theses PVs are only visible if VSAN is installed which gives users a Container Native Storage tab.

Delete the workload cluster

Make sure your vSphere credentials are up-to-date. Refresh the credentials using this command:
CODE
```
dkp update bootstrap credentials vsphere --kubeconfig $HOME/.kube/config
```
To delete a cluster, you would use dkp delete cluster and pass in the name of the cluster you are trying to delete with --cluster-name flag. You would use kubectl get clusters to get those details (--cluster-name and --namespace) of the Kubernetes cluster to delete it.
NOTE: Do not use dkp get clusters since that gets you Kommander cluster details rather than Konvoy kubernetes cluster details.
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```
kubectl get clusters
```

Delete the Kubernetes cluster and wait a few minutes:

Before deleting the cluster, DKP deletes all Services of type LoadBalancer on the cluster.

To skip this step, use the flag --delete-kubernetes-resources=false.

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dkp delete cluster --cluster-name=${CLUSTER_NAME} --kubeconfig $HOME/.kube/config

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INFO[2022-03-30T11:53:42-07:00] Running cluster delete command                clusterName=d2iq-e2e-cluster-1 managementClusterKubeconfig= namespace=default src="cluster/delete.go:95"
INFO[2022-03-30T11:53:42-07:00] Waiting for cluster to be fully deleted       src="cluster/delete.go:123"
INFO[2022-03-30T12:14:03-07:00] Deleted default/d2iq-e2e-cluster-1 cluster  src="cluster/delete.go:129"

Delete the Bootstrap Cluster

After the workload cluster is deleted, you can delete the bootstrap cluster.

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dkp delete bootstrap --kubeconfig $HOME/.kube/config

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INFO[2021-06-09T12:15:20-07:00] Deleting bootstrap cluster                    src="bootstrap/bootstrap.go:182"

Next Step:

Once your cluster is built in the Konvoy component of DKP for your infrastructure/environment, you will install the Kommander component of DKP to see your dashboard and continue customization.

Known limitations

Be aware of these limitations in the current release of DKP Konvoy.

The DKP Konvoy version used to create the workload cluster must match the DKP Konvoy version used to delete the workload cluster.