Uninstall VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance Deployment

To uninstall the VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance deployment, update the deploy.settings file as described in this section.

Note: Customization to the deployment of the VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid management cluster has to be reverted in the event that the workload cluster must be updated or to perform any type of maintenance from the VMware Telco Cloud Automation manager UI, including upgrades and cluster life cycle management.

If you want to uninstall PV or PVCs after the VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance deployment, run the following command:

kubectl edit tcxproduct tcsa

If you deployed the VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance through VMware Telco Cloud Automation, then run the following command:

kubectl get tcxproduct
NAME                   STATUS            READY   MESSAGE                               AGE
tcsa-210-0e98c-ynvc7   updateCompleted   True    All App CRs reconciled successfully   39h

After you the get the preceding command output, run the following command:

kubectl edit tcxproduct tcsa-210-0e98c-ynvc7

Add the finalizer.volume.vmware.com in the snippet.

apiVersion: tcx.vmware.com/v1
kind: TcxProduct
metadata:
  annotations:
    meta.helm.sh/release-name: tcsa
    meta.helm.sh/release-namespace: default
    tcxproduct/type: tcsa
  creationTimestamp: "2022-12-13T02:59:15Z"
  finalizers:
  - finalizer.volume.vmware.com
  - finalizer.tcxproduct.tcx.vmware.com

Note: PV and PVCs uninstallation is applicable to VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance deployment on VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, Azure, and AWS.

1. Set the DEPLOYMENT_ACTION to cleanup in the deploy.settings file.

   # ========= Deployment modes and actions ========== #
   # Options are "init", "deploy-apps", "deploy-all" or "cleanup"
   
   DEPLOYMENT_ACTION="cleanup"
   ## Set this to '--force' if you want to cleanup by force without waiting for user confirmation
   DELETE_ARGS=

   For example, DELETE_ARGS='--force'

2. Launch the Deployment Container on the deployment host. For more information, see Launch the Deployment Container.
3. Update the PRODUCT_DEPLOYMENT_TIMEOUT value according to the footprint.
4. Trigger the uninstallation by running the following script.

   root [ ~ ]# cd tcx-deployer/scripts/deployment/
   root [ ~/tcx-deployer/scripts/deployment ]# ./tcx_app_deployment.sh

   Note: If you do not use the force command, the uninstallation step deletes the resources from the cluster without the following confirmation message.

   Are you sure you want to proceed? (y/n):y.