Deleting an admin cluster

This page describes how to delete an Google Distributed Cloud admin cluster.

Before you begin

Before you delete an admin cluster, complete the following steps:

• Delete its user clusters. See Deleting a user cluster.
• Delete any workloads that use PodDisruptionBudgets (PDBs) from the admin cluster.
• Delete all external objects, such as PersistentVolumes, from the admin cluster.

• Set a KUBECONFIG environment variable pointing to the kubeconfig of the admin cluster that you want to delete:

  export KUBECONFIG=[ADMIN_CLUSTER_KUBECONFIG]
  

  where [ADMIN_CLUSTER_KUBECONFIG] is the path of the admin cluster's kubeconfig file.

Deleting logging and monitoring

Google Distributed Cloud's logging and monitoring Pods, deployed from StatefulSets, use PDBs that can prevent nodes from draining properly. To properly delete an admin cluster, you need to delete these Pods.

To delete logging and monitoring Pods, run the following commands:

kubectl delete monitoring --all -n kube-system
kubectl delete stackdriver --all -n kube-system

Deleting monitoring cleans up the PersistentVolumes (PVs) associated with StatefulSets, but the PersistentVolume for Stackdriver needs to be deleted separately.

Deletion of the Stackdriver PV is optional. If you choose not to delete the PV, record the location and name of the associated PV in an external location outside of the user cluster.

Deletion of the PV will get propagated through deleting the Persistent Volume Claim (PVC).

To find the Stackdriver PVC, run the following command:

kubectl get pvc -n kube-system

To delete the PVC, run the following command:

kubectl delete pvc -n kube-system [PVC_NAME]

Verifying logging & monitoring are removed

To verify that logging and monitoring have been removed, run the following commands:

kubectl get pvc -n kube-system
kubectl get statefulsets -n kube-system

Cleaning up an admin cluster's F5 partition

Deleting the gke-system namespace from the admin cluster ensures proper cleanup of the F5 partition, allowing you to reuse the partition for another admin cluster.

To delete the gke-system namespace, run the following command:

kubectl delete ns gke-system

Then delete any remaining Services of type LoadBalancer. To list all Services, run the following command:

kubectl get services --all-namespaces

For each Service of type LoadBalancer, delete it by running the following command:

kubectl delete service [SERVICE_NAME] -n [SERVICE_NAMESPACE]

Then, from the F5 BIG-IP console:

1. In the top-right corner of the console, switch to the partition to clean up.
2. Select Local Traffic > Virtual Servers > Virtual Server List.
3. In the Virtual Servers menu, remove all the virtual IPs.
4. Select Pools, then delete all the pools.
5. Select Nodes, then delete all the nodes.

Verifying F5 partition is clean

ping -c 1 -W 1 [F5_LOAD_BALANCER_IP]; echo $?

Powering off admin node machines

To delete the admin control plane node machines, you need to power off each of the remaining admin VMs in your vSphere resource pool.

Deleting admin node machines

After the VM has powered off, you can delete the VM.

First, run this command to get the names of the machines:

kubectl get machines -o wide

THe output lists the names of the machines. You can now find them in the vSphere UI.

Deleting the data disk

After you have deleted the VMs, you can delete the data disk.

After you have finished

After you have finished deleting the admin cluster, delete its kubeconfig.