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Version: 3.27 (latest)

calicoctl delete

This sections describes the calicoctl delete command.

Read the calicoctl command line interface user reference for a full list of calicoctl commands.

note

The available actions for a specific resource type may be limited based on the datastore used for Calico (etcdv3 / Kubernetes API). Please refer to the Resources section for details about each resource type.

Displaying the help text for 'calicoctl delete' command

Run calicoctl delete --help to display the following help menu for the command.

Usage:
calicoctl delete ( (<KIND> [<NAME...>]) |
--filename=<FILE>) [--recursive] [--skip-empty]
[--skip-not-exists] [--config=<CONFIG>] [--namespace=<NS>]

Examples:
# Delete a policy using the type and name specified in policy.yaml.
calicoctl delete -f ./policy.yaml

# Delete a policy based on the type and name in the YAML passed into stdin.
cat policy.yaml | calicoctl delete -f -

# Delete policies with names "foo" and "bar"
calicoctl delete policy foo bar

Options:
-h --help Show this screen.
-s --skip-not-exists Skip over and treat as successful, resources that
don't exist.
-f --filename=<FILENAME> Filename to use to delete the resource. If set to
"-" loads from stdin. If filename is a directory, this command is
invoked for each .json .yaml and .yml file within that directory,
terminating after the first failure.
-R --recursive Process the filename specified in -f or --filename recursively.
--skip-empty Do not error if any files or directory specified using -f or --filename contain no
data.
-c --config=<CONFIG> Path to the file containing connection
configuration in YAML or JSON format.
[default: /etc/calico/calicoctl.cfg]
-n --namespace=<NS> Namespace of the resource.
Only applicable to NetworkPolicy and WorkloadEndpoint.
Uses the default namespace if not specified.
--context=<context> The name of the kubeconfig context to use.

Description:
The delete command is used to delete a set of resources by filename or stdin,
or by type and identifiers. JSON and YAML formats are accepted for file and
stdin format.

Valid resource types are:

* bgpConfiguration
* bgpPeer
* felixConfiguration
* globalNetworkPolicy
* hostEndpoint
* ipPool
* networkPolicy
* node
* profile
* workloadEndpoint

The resource type is case insensitive and may be pluralized.

Attempting to delete a resource that does not exists is treated as a
terminating error unless the --skip-not-exists flag is set. If this flag is
set, resources that do not exist are skipped.

When deleting resources by type, only a single type may be specified at a
time. The name is required along with any and other identifiers required to
uniquely identify a resource of the specified type.

The output of the command indicates how many resources were successfully
deleted, and the error reason if an error occurred. If the --skip-not-exists
flag is set then skipped resources are included in the success count.

The resources are deleted in the order they are specified. In the event of a
failure deleting a specific resource it is possible to work out which
resource failed based on the number of resources successfully deleted.

Examples

  1. Delete a set of resources (of mixed type) using the data in resources.yaml.

    calicoctl delete -f ./resources.yaml

    Results indicate that 8 resources were successfully deleted.

    Successfully deleted 8 resource(s)
  2. Delete a policy resource by name. The policy is called "policy1".

    bin/calicoctl delete policy policy1

    Results indicate success.

    Successfully deleted 1 'policy' resource(s)

Options

-s --skip-not-exists      Skip over and treat as successful, resources that
don't exist.
-f --filename=<FILENAME> Filename to use to delete the resource. If set to
"-" loads from stdin.
-n --namespace=<NS> Namespace of the resource.
Only applicable to NetworkPolicy and WorkloadEndpoint.
Uses the default namespace if not specified.

General options

-c --config=<CONFIG>      Path to the file containing connection
configuration in YAML or JSON format.
[default: /etc/calico/calicoctl.cfg]

See also