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helm uninstall

uninstall a release

Synopsis

This command takes a release name and uninstalls the release.

It removes all of the resources associated with the last release of the chart as well as the release history, freeing it up for future use.

Use the ‘—dry-run’ flag to see which releases will be uninstalled without actually uninstalling them.

Use ‘—cascade foreground’ with ‘—wait’ to ensure resources with finalizers are fully deleted before the command returns.

helm uninstall RELEASE_NAME [...] [flags]

Options

      --cascade string                Must be "background", "orphan", or "foreground". Selects the deletion cascading strategy for the dependents. Defaults to background. Use "foreground" with --wait to ensure resources with finalizers are fully deleted before returning. (default "background")
      --description string            add a custom description
      --dry-run                       simulate a uninstall
  -h, --help                          help for uninstall
      --ignore-not-found              Treat "release not found" as a successful uninstall
      --keep-history                  remove all associated resources and mark the release as deleted, but retain the release history
      --no-hooks                      prevent hooks from running during uninstallation
      --timeout duration              time to wait for any individual Kubernetes operation (like Jobs for hooks) (default 5m0s)
      --wait WaitStrategy[=watcher]   wait until resources are ready (up to --timeout). Use '--wait' alone for 'watcher' strategy, or specify one of: 'watcher', 'hookOnly', 'legacy'. Default when flag is omitted: 'hookOnly'. (default hookOnly)

Options inherited from parent commands

      --burst-limit int                 client-side default throttling limit (default 100)
      --color string                    use colored output (never, auto, always) (default "auto")
      --colour string                   use colored output (never, auto, always) (default "auto")
      --content-cache string            path to the directory containing cached content (e.g. charts) (default "~/.cache/helm/content")
      --debug                           enable verbose output
      --kube-apiserver string           the address and the port for the Kubernetes API server
      --kube-as-group stringArray       group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups.
      --kube-as-user string             username to impersonate for the operation
      --kube-ca-file string             the certificate authority file for the Kubernetes API server connection
      --kube-context string             name of the kubeconfig context to use
      --kube-insecure-skip-tls-verify   if true, the Kubernetes API server's certificate will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections insecure
      --kube-tls-server-name string     server name to use for Kubernetes API server certificate validation. If it is not provided, the hostname used to contact the server is used
      --kube-token string               bearer token used for authentication
      --kubeconfig string               path to the kubeconfig file
  -n, --namespace string                namespace scope for this request
      --qps float32                     queries per second used when communicating with the Kubernetes API, not including bursting
      --registry-config string          path to the registry config file (default "~/.config/helm/registry/config.json")
      --repository-cache string         path to the directory containing cached repository indexes (default "~/.cache/helm/repository")
      --repository-config string        path to the file containing repository names and URLs (default "~/.config/helm/repositories.yaml")

SEE ALSO

  • helm - The Helm package manager for Kubernetes.
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