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Chapter 42. Uninstalling Operator Lifecycle Manager

After installing your cluster, you can uninstall the Operator Lifecycle Manager by using the OpenShift Container Platform openshift-ansible installer.

After installing your cluster, you can use this procedure with the OpenShift Container Platform openshift-ansible installer to uninstall the Technology Preview Operator Framework.

You must check the following prerequisites before uninstalling the Technology Preview Operator Framework:

  • An existing OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 cluster
  • Access to the cluster using an account with cluster-admin permissions

  • Ansible playbooks provided by the latest openshift-ansible installer

    1. Add the following variables to your config.yml playbook: 

      operator_lifecycle_manager_install=false
operator_lifecycle_manager_remove=true
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    2. Change to the playbook directory: 

      $ cd /usr/share/ansible/openshift-ansible
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    3. Run the OLM installation playbook to uninstall OLM using your inventory file: 

      $ ansible-playbook -i <inventory_file> playbooks/olm/config.yml
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