Destroy the Deployment from Kubernetes

5min
Waypoint

Remove your application from the cluster by running the destroy command.

$ waypoint destroy -auto-approve

» Destroying releases...

» Destroying deployments...
Destroy successful!

Troubleshooting

You can also remove the Waypoint server from the cluster.

The troubleshooting documentation describes how to remove the Waypoint server from a Kubernetes cluster. This is a good option if you want to continue using the current Kubernetes cluster for other workloads.

If you encounter an error when running up, it is sometimes effective to run context clear and the initialize the project again. Read about the sub-commands of context with the -h flag.

$ waypoint context -h

Destroy the cluster

If you created a Kubernetes cluster specifically for this project, this is a good time to destroy it as well.

Docker Desktop for running local Docker resources. It has a built in Kubernetes feature for running a local Kubernetes cluster.

To reset Kubernetes on your local machine, navigate to the Preferences screen and click the button labeled "Reset Kubernetes Cluster", and then click "Yes, reset anyway" when prompted.

MacOS

Then click the "Apply & Restart" button. After a few moments, Docker Desktop will restart with and active Kubernetes cluster. You can verify your local configuration by running any command against kubectl.

$  kubectl get all

NAME                 TYPE        CLUSTER-IP   EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)   AGE
service/kubernetes   ClusterIP   10.96.0.1    <none>        443/TCP   24m

If you created your GKE cluster with Terraform, return to the directory with the Terraform configuration and run destroy.

$ terraform destroy

Or, visit the GCP console and use the web UI to delete the cluster.

Next steps

You have now completed the tutorial for deploying an application using the Waypoint workflow.

In these tutorials, you accomplished the following tasks:

Installed Waypoint and initialized an application
Built, deployed, and released the app with the Waypoint workflow
Made a change to the app and then redeployed it
Ran commands on the app with waypoint exec
Viewed the application's log data
Accessed the Waypoint web UI

From here, we suggest you try one of the other Getting Started guides like deploying an application to Nomad.

You are now ready to deploy your own applications and contribute to the Waypoint examples!

The examples repository includes sample code for several programming languages including:

Java
NodeJS
Ruby
Python
Laravel PHP

It also includes examples for other cloud hosting platforms including:

AWS ECS
AWS EKS
Google Cloud Run

Visit the plugin documentation for documentation on other deployment targets such as:

AWS EC2
Netlify

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