Appendix F. Purging storage clusters deployed by Ansible

Procedure

1. Navigate to the /usr/share/ceph-ansible/ directory:

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   [root@admin ~]# cd /usr/share/ceph-ansible

2. As the ansible user, run the purge playbook.

   1. For bare-metal deployments, use the purge-cluster.yml playbook to purge the Ceph storage cluster:

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      [ansible@admin ceph-ansible]$ ansible-playbook infrastructure-playbooks/purge-cluster.yml

   2. For container deployments:

      1. Use the purge-docker-cluster.yml playbook to purge the Ceph storage cluster:

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         [ansible@admin ceph-ansible]$ ansible-playbook infrastructure-playbooks/purge-docker-cluster.yml

         Note

         This playbook removes all packages, containers, configuration files, and all the data created by the Ceph Ansible playbook.

      2. To specify a different inventory file other than the default (/etc/ansible/hosts), use -i parameter:

         Syntax

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         [ansible@admin ceph-ansible]$ ansible-playbook infrastructure-playbooks/purge-docker-cluster.yml -i INVENTORY_FILE

         Replace

         INVENTORY_FILE with the path to the inventory file.

         Example

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         [ansible@admin ceph-ansible]$ ansible-playbook infrastructure-playbooks/purge-docker-cluster.yml -i ~/ansible/hosts

      3. To skip the removal of the Ceph container image, use the --skip-tags=”remove_img” option:

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         [ansible@admin ceph-ansible]$ ansible-playbook --skip-tags="remove_img" infrastructure-playbooks/purge-docker-cluster.yml

      4. To skip the removal of the packages that were installed during the installation, use the --skip-tags=”with_pkg” option:

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         [ansible@admin ceph-ansible]$ ansible-playbook --skip-tags="with_pkg" infrastructure-playbooks/purge-docker-cluster.yml