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Calico Open Source 3.33 (latest) documentation

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.

Delete one or more Calico resources, either by type and name or from a file,
directory, or stdin. Deleting a resource that doesn't exist is treated as an
error unless --skip-not-exists is set.

Usage:
  calicoctl delete [KIND [NAME...]] [flags]

Examples:
  # Delete specific policies by name.
  calicoctl delete networkpolicy foo bar

  # Delete the resources described in a file.
  calicoctl delete -f ./policy.yaml

Flags:
  -c, --config string      Path to the file containing connection configuration in YAML or JSON format. (default "/etc/calico/calicoctl.cfg")
  -f, --filename string    Filename to use to create/apply/replace/delete the resource. Use '-' for stdin.
  -h, --help               help for delete
  -n, --namespace string   Namespace of the resource.
  -R, --recursive          Process the filename specified in -f recursively.
      --skip-empty         Do not error if files contain no data.
  -s, --skip-not-exists    Skip over resources that do not exist.

Global Flags:
      --allow-version-mismatch   Allow client and cluster versions mismatch
      --context string           The name of the kubeconfig context to use
  -l, --log-level string         Set the log level (panic, fatal, error, warn, info, debug) (default "panic")

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 resources that do not exist.
  -f, --filename string    Filename to use to create/apply/replace/delete the resource. Use '-' for stdin.
  -n, --namespace string   Namespace of the resource.

General options​

  -c, --config string      Path to the file containing connection configuration in YAML or JSON format. (default "/etc/calico/calicoctl.cfg")

See also​