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Destroying a hosted cluster on IBM Z

You can destroy a hosted cluster on x86 bare metal with IBM Z compute nodes and its managed cluster resource by using the command-line interface (CLI).

Destroying a hosted cluster on x86 bare metal with IBM Z compute nodes

To destroy a hosted cluster and its managed cluster on x86 bare metal with IBM Z® compute nodes, you can use the command-line interface (CLI).

Procedure

  1. Scale the NodePool object to 0 nodes by running the following command:

    $ oc -n <hosted_cluster_namespace> scale nodepool <nodepool_name> \
  --replicas 0

    After the NodePool object is scaled to 0, the compute nodes are detached from the hosted cluster. In OpenShift Container Platform version 4.17, this function is applicable only for IBM Z with KVM. For z/VM and LPAR, you must delete the compute nodes manually.

    If you want to re-attach compute nodes to the cluster, you can scale up the NodePool object with the number of compute nodes that you want. For z/VM and LPAR to reuse the agents, you must re-create them by using the Discovery image.

    Important

    If the compute nodes are not detached from the hosted cluster or are stuck in the Notready state, delete the compute nodes manually by running the following command:

    $ oc --kubeconfig <hosted_cluster_name>.kubeconfig delete \
  node <compute_node_name>

    If you are using an OSA network device in Processor Resource/Systems Manager (PR/SM) mode, auto scaling is not supported. You must delete the old agent manually and scale up the node pool because the new agent joins during the scale down process.

  2. Verify the status of the compute nodes by entering the following command:

    $ oc --kubeconfig <hosted_cluster_name>.kubeconfig get nodes

    After the compute nodes are detached from the hosted cluster, the status of the agents is changed to auto-assign.

  3. Delete the agents from the cluster by running the following command:

    $ oc -n <hosted_control_plane_namespace> delete agent <agent_name>

    Note

    You can delete the virtual machines that you created as agents after you delete the agents from the cluster.

  4. Destroy the hosted cluster by running the following command:

    $ hcp destroy cluster agent --name <hosted_cluster_name> \
  --namespace <hosted_cluster_namespace>