Uninstall your Tanzu Application Platform by using Tanzu CLI

This document tells you how to uninstall Tanzu Application Platform (commonly known as TAP) packages from your Tanzu Application Platform package repository by using Tanzu CLI.

To uninstall Tanzu Application Platform:

• Delete the Packages
• Delete the Tanzu Application Platform Package Repository
• Remove Tanzu CLI, plug-ins, and associated files
• Remove Cluster Essentials

Delete the packages

• If you installed Tanzu Application Platform through predefined profiles, delete the tap metadata package by running:

  tanzu package installed delete tap --namespace tap-install
  

• If you installed any additional packages that were not in the predefined profiles, delete the individual packages by running:

  1. List the installed packages by running:

     tanzu package installed list --namespace tap-install
     

  2. Remove a package by running:

     tanzu package installed delete PACKAGE-NAME --namespace tap-install
     

     For example:

     $ tanzu package installed delete cloud-native-runtimes --namespace tap-install
     | Uninstalling package 'cloud-native-runtimes' from namespace 'tap-install'
     / Getting package install for 'cloud-native-runtimes'
     \ Deleting package install 'cloud-native-runtimes' from namespace 'tap-install'
     \ Package uninstall status: Reconciling
     / Package uninstall status: Deleting
     | Deleting admin role 'cloud-native-runtimes-tap-install-cluster-role'
     | Deleting role binding 'cloud-native-runtimes-tap-install-cluster-rolebinding'
     | Deleting secret 'cloud-native-runtimes-tap-install-values'
     / Deleting service account 'cloud-native-runtimes-tap-install-sa'    
     
      Uninstalled package 'cloud-native-runtimes' from namespace 'tap-install'
     

     Where PACKAGE-NAME is the name of a package listed in step 1.

  3. Repeat step 2 for each individual package installed.

Delete the Tanzu Application Platform package repository

To delete the Tanzu Application Platform package repository:

1. Retrieve the name of the Tanzu Application Platform package repository by running:

   tanzu package repository list --namespace tap-install
   

   For example:

   $ tanzu package repository list --namespace tap-install
   - Retrieving repositories...
     NAME                  REPOSITORY                                                         STATUS               DETAILS
     tanzu-tap-repository  registry.tanzu.vmware.com/tanzu-application-platform/tap-packages:0.2.0  Reconcile succeeded
   

2. Remove the Tanzu Application Platform package repository by running:

   tanzu package repository delete PACKAGE-REPO-NAME --namespace tap-install
   

   Where PACKAGE-REPO-NAME is the name of the packageRepository from the earlier step.

   For example:

   $ tanzu package repository delete tanzu-tap-repository --namespace tap-install
   - Deleting package repository 'tanzu-tap-repository'...
    Deleted package repository 'tanzu-tap-repository' in namespace 'tap-install'
   

Remove Tanzu CLI, plug-ins, and associated files

To completely remove the Tanzu CLI, plug-ins, and associated files, run the script for your OS:

• For Linux or MacOS, run:

  #!/bin/zsh
  rm -rf $HOME/tanzu/cli        # Remove previously downloaded cli files
  sudo rm /usr/local/bin/tanzu  # Remove CLI binary (executable)
  rm -rf ~/.config/tanzu/       # current location # Remove config directory
  rm -rf ~/.tanzu/              # old location # Remove config directory
  rm -rf ~/.cache/tanzu         # remove cached catalog.yaml
  rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/tanzu-cli/* # Remove plug-ins
  

• Uninstall tanzu cli installed using package manager:

  • On mac:

    brew uninstall vmware-tanzu/tanzu/tanzu-cli
    

  • On Linux:

    sudo apt remove tanzu-cli
    

    sudo yum remove tanzu-cli
    

  • On Windows:

    choco uninstall tanzu-cli
    

Remove Cluster Essentials

To completely remove Cluster Essentials, see Cluster Essentials documentation.

Remove Crossplane resources

To remove Crossplane resources, see Delete Crossplane resources when you uninstall Tanzu Application Platform.