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Removing OpenShift Serverless

If you need to remove OpenShift Serverless from your cluster, you can do so by manually removing the OpenShift Serverless Operator and other OpenShift Serverless components. Before you can remove the OpenShift Serverless Operator, you must remove Knative Serving and Knative Eventing.

Uninstalling Knative Serving

Before you can remove the OpenShift Serverless Operator, you must remove Knative Serving. To uninstall Knative Serving, you must remove the KnativeServing custom resource (CR) and delete the knative-serving namespace.

Prerequisites

  • You have access to an OpenShift Container Platform account with cluster administrator access.

  • Install the OpenShift CLI (oc).

Procedure

  1. Delete the KnativeServing CR:

    $ oc delete knativeservings.operator.knative.dev knative-serving -n knative-serving

  2. After the command has completed and all pods have been removed from the knative-serving namespace, delete the namespace:

    $ oc delete namespace knative-serving

Uninstalling Knative Eventing

Before you can remove the OpenShift Serverless Operator, you must remove Knative Eventing. To uninstall Knative Eventing, you must remove the KnativeEventing custom resource (CR) and delete the knative-eventing namespace.

Prerequisites

  • You have access to an OpenShift Container Platform account with cluster administrator access.

  • Install the OpenShift CLI (oc).

Procedure

  1. Delete the KnativeEventing CR:

    $ oc delete knativeeventings.operator.knative.dev knative-eventing -n knative-eventing

  2. After the command has completed and all pods have been removed from the knative-eventing namespace, delete the namespace:

    $ oc delete namespace knative-eventing

Removing the OpenShift Serverless Operator

After you have removed Knative Serving and Knative Eventing, you can remove the OpenShift Serverless Operator. You can do this by using the OpenShift Container Platform web console or the oc CLI.

Deleting Operators from a cluster using the web console

Cluster administrators can delete installed Operators from a selected namespace by using the web console.

Prerequisites

  • Access to an OpenShift Container Platform cluster web console using an account with cluster-admin permissions.

Procedure

  1. From the Operators → Installed Operators page, scroll or type a keyword into the Filter by name to find the Operator you want. Then, click on it.

  2. On the right side of the Operator Details page, select Uninstall Operator from the Actions list.

    An Uninstall Operator? dialog box is displayed, reminding you that:

    Removing the Operator will not remove any of its custom resource definitions or managed resources. If your Operator has deployed applications on the cluster or configured off-cluster resources, these will continue to run and need to be cleaned up manually.

    This action removes the Operator as well as the Operator deployments and pods, if any. Any Operands, and resources managed by the Operator, including CRDs and CRs, are not removed. The web console enables dashboards and navigation items for some Operators. To remove these after uninstalling the Operator, you might need to manually delete the Operator CRDs.

  3. Select Uninstall. This Operator stops running and no longer receives updates.

Deleting Operators from a cluster using the CLI

Cluster administrators can delete installed Operators from a selected namespace by using the CLI.

Prerequisites

  • Access to an OpenShift Container Platform cluster using an account with cluster-admin permissions.

  • oc command installed on workstation.

Procedure

  1. Check the current version of the subscribed Operator (for example, jaeger) in the currentCSV field:

    $ oc get subscription jaeger -n openshift-operators -o yaml | grep currentCSV
    Example output
      currentCSV: jaeger-operator.v1.8.2

  2. Delete the subscription (for example, jaeger):

    $ oc delete subscription jaeger -n openshift-operators
    Example output
    subscription.operators.coreos.com "jaeger" deleted

  3. Delete the CSV for the Operator in the target namespace using the currentCSV value from the previous step:

    $ oc delete clusterserviceversion jaeger-operator.v1.8.2 -n openshift-operators
    Example output
    clusterserviceversion.operators.coreos.com "jaeger-operator.v1.8.2" deleted

Refreshing failing subscriptions

In Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM), if you subscribe to an Operator that references images that are not accessible on your network, you can find jobs in the openshift-marketplace namespace that are failing with the following errors:

Example output
ImagePullBackOff for
Back-off pulling image "example.com/openshift4/ose-elasticsearch-operator-bundle@sha256:6d2587129c846ec28d384540322b40b05833e7e00b25cca584e004af9a1d292e"
Example output
rpc error: code = Unknown desc = error pinging docker registry example.com: Get "https://example.com/v2/": dial tcp: lookup example.com on 10.0.0.1:53: no such host

As a result, the subscription is stuck in this failing state and the Operator is unable to install or upgrade.

You can refresh a failing subscription by deleting the subscription, cluster service version (CSV), and other related objects. After recreating the subscription, OLM then reinstalls the correct version of the Operator.

Prerequisites

  • You have a failing subscription that is unable to pull an inaccessible bundle image.

  • You have confirmed that the correct bundle image is accessible.

Procedure

  1. Get the names of the Subscription and ClusterServiceVersion objects from the namespace where the Operator is installed:

    $ oc get sub,csv -n <namespace>
    Example output
    NAME                                                       PACKAGE                  SOURCE             CHANNEL
subscription.operators.coreos.com/elasticsearch-operator   elasticsearch-operator   redhat-operators   5.0

NAME                                                                         DISPLAY                            VERSION    REPLACES   PHASE
clusterserviceversion.operators.coreos.com/elasticsearch-operator.5.0.0-65   OpenShift Elasticsearch Operator   5.0.0-65              Succeeded

  2. Delete the subscription:

    $ oc delete subscription <subscription_name> -n <namespace>

  3. Delete the cluster service version:

    $ oc delete csv <csv_name> -n <namespace>

  4. Get the names of any failing jobs and related config maps in the openshift-marketplace namespace:

    $ oc get job,configmap -n openshift-marketplace
    Example output
    NAME                                                                        COMPLETIONS   DURATION   AGE
job.batch/1de9443b6324e629ddf31fed0a853a121275806170e34c926d69e53a7fcbccb   1/1           26s        9m30s

NAME                                                                        DATA   AGE
configmap/1de9443b6324e629ddf31fed0a853a121275806170e34c926d69e53a7fcbccb   3      9m30s

  5. Delete the job:

    $ oc delete job <job_name> -n openshift-marketplace

    This ensures pods that try to pull the inaccessible image are not recreated.

  6. Delete the config map:

    $ oc delete configmap <configmap_name> -n openshift-marketplace

  7. Reinstall the Operator using OperatorHub in the web console.

Verification

  • Check that the Operator has been reinstalled successfully:

    $ oc get sub,csv,installplan -n <namespace>

Deleting OpenShift Serverless custom resource definitions

After uninstalling the OpenShift Serverless, the Operator and API custom resource definitions (CRDs) remain on the cluster. You can use the following procedure to remove the remaining CRDs.

Removing the Operator and API CRDs also removes all resources that were defined by using them, including Knative services.
Prerequisites

  • You have access to an OpenShift Container Platform account with cluster administrator access.

  • You have uninstalled Knative Serving and removed the OpenShift Serverless Operator.

  • Install the OpenShift CLI (oc).

Procedure

  • To delete the remaining OpenShift Serverless CRDs, enter the following command:

    $ oc get crd -oname | grep 'knative.dev' | xargs oc delete