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Chapter 6. Uninstalling OpenShift Container Storage

Use the steps in this section to uninstall OpenShift Container Storage. Uninstalling OpenShift Container Storage does not remove the RBD pool from the external cluster, or uninstall the external Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.

Uninstall Annotations

Annotations on the Storage Cluster are used to change the behavior of the uninstall process. To define the uninstall behavior, the following two annotations have been introduced in the storage cluster:

  • uninstall.ocs.openshift.io/cleanup-policy: delete
  • uninstall.ocs.openshift.io/mode: graceful
Note

The uninstall.ocs.openshift.io/cleanup-policy is not applicable for external mode.

The below table provides information on the different values that can used with these annotations:

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Table 6.1. uninstall.ocs.openshift.io uninstall annotations descriptions
AnnotationValueDefaultBehavior

cleanup-policy

delete

Yes

Rook cleans up the physical drives and the DataDirHostPath

cleanup-policy

retain

No

Rook does not clean up the physical drives and the DataDirHostPath

mode

graceful

Yes

Rook and NooBaa pauses the uninstall process until the PVCs and the OBCs are removed by the administrator/user

mode

forced

No

Rook and NooBaa proceeds with uninstall even if PVCs/OBCs provisioned using Rook and NooBaa exist respectively

You can change the uninstall mode by editing the value of the annotation by using the following commands: 

$ oc annotate storagecluster ocs-external-storagecluster uninstall.ocs.openshift.io/mode="forced" --overwrite
storagecluster.ocs.openshift.io/ocs-external-storagecluster annotated
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Prerequisites

  • Ensure that the OpenShift Container Storage cluster is in a healthy state. The uninstall process can fail when some of the pods are not terminated successfully due to insufficient resources or nodes. In case the cluster is in an unhealthy state, contact Red Hat Customer Support before uninstalling OpenShift Container Storage.
  • Ensure that applications are not consuming persistent volume claims (PVCs) or object bucket claims (OBCs) using the storage classes provided by OpenShift Container Storage.

Procedure

  1. Delete the volume snapshots that are using OpenShift Container Storage.

    1. List the volume snapshots from all the namespaces 

      $ oc get volumesnapshot --all-namespaces
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    2. From the output of the previous command, identify and delete the volume snapshots that are using OpenShift Container Storage. 

      $ oc delete volumesnapshot <VOLUME-SNAPSHOT-NAME> -n <NAMESPACE>
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  2. Delete PVCs and OBCs that are using OpenShift Container Storage.

    In the default uninstall mode (graceful), the uninstaller waits till all the PVCs and OBCs that use OpenShift Container Storage are deleted.

    If you wish to delete the Storage Cluster without deleting the PVCs beforehand, you may set the uninstall mode annotation to "forced" and skip this step. Doing so will result in orphan PVCs and OBCs in the system.

    1. Delete OpenShift Container Platform monitoring stack PVCs using OpenShift Container Storage.

      See Section 6.2, “Removing monitoring stack from OpenShift Container Storage”

    2. Delete OpenShift Container Platform Registry PVCs using OpenShift Container Storage.

      See Section 6.3, “Removing OpenShift Container Platform registry from OpenShift Container Storage”

    3. Delete OpenShift Container Platform logging PVCs using OpenShift Container Storage.

      See Section 6.4, “Removing the cluster logging operator from OpenShift Container Storage”

    4. Delete other PVCs and OBCs provisioned using OpenShift Container Storage.

      • Given below is a sample script to identify the PVCs and OBCs provisioned using OpenShift Container Storage. The script ignores the PVCs and OBCs that are used internally by Openshift Container Storage. 

        #!/bin/bash

RBD_PROVISIONER="openshift-storage.rbd.csi.ceph.com"
CEPHFS_PROVISIONER="openshift-storage.cephfs.csi.ceph.com"
NOOBAA_PROVISIONER="openshift-storage.noobaa.io/obc"
RGW_PROVISIONER="openshift-storage.ceph.rook.io/bucket"

NOOBAA_DB_PVC="noobaa-db"
NOOBAA_BACKINGSTORE_PVC="noobaa-default-backing-store-noobaa-pvc"

# Find all the OCS StorageClasses
OCS_STORAGECLASSES=$(oc get storageclasses | grep -e "$RBD_PROVISIONER" -e "$CEPHFS_PROVISIONER" -e "$NOOBAA_PROVISIONER" -e "$RGW_PROVISIONER" | awk '{print $1}')

# List PVCs in each of the StorageClasses
for SC in $OCS_STORAGECLASSES
do
        echo "======================================================================"
        echo "$SC StorageClass PVCs and OBCs"
        echo "======================================================================"
        oc get pvc  --all-namespaces --no-headers 2>/dev/null | grep $SC | grep -v -e "$NOOBAA_DB_PVC" -e "$NOOBAA_BACKINGSTORE_PVC"
        oc get obc  --all-namespaces --no-headers 2>/dev/null | grep $SC
        echo
done
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      • Delete the OBCs. 

        $ oc delete obc <obc name> -n <project name>
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      • Delete the PVCs. 

        $ oc delete pvc <pvc name> -n <project-name>
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        Ensure that you have removed any custom backing stores, bucket classes, etc., created in the cluster.

  3. Delete the Storage Cluster object and wait for the removal of the associated resources. 

    $ oc delete -n openshift-storage storagecluster --all --wait=true
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  4. Delete the namespace and wait until the deletion is complete. You will need to switch to another project if openshift-storage is the active project.

    For example: 

    $ oc project default
$ oc delete project openshift-storage --wait=true --timeout=5m
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    The project is deleted if the following command returns a NotFound error. 

    $ oc get project openshift-storage
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    Note

    While uninstalling OpenShift Container Storage, if the namespace is not deleted completely and remains in Terminating state, perform the steps in Troubleshooting and deleting remaining resources during Uninstall to identify objects that are blocking the namespace from being terminated.

  5. Confirm all PVs provisioned using OpenShift Container Storage are deleted. If there is any PV left in the Released state, delete it. 

    $ oc get pv
$ oc delete pv <pv name>
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  6. Delete the Multicloud Object Gateway storageclass. 

    $ oc delete storageclass openshift-storage.noobaa.io --wait=true --timeout=5m
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  7. Remove CustomResourceDefinitions. 

    $ oc delete crd backingstores.noobaa.io bucketclasses.noobaa.io cephblockpools.ceph.rook.io cephclusters.ceph.rook.io cephfilesystems.ceph.rook.io cephnfses.ceph.rook.io cephobjectstores.ceph.rook.io cephobjectstoreusers.ceph.rook.io noobaas.noobaa.io ocsinitializations.ocs.openshift.io storageclusters.ocs.openshift.io cephclients.ceph.rook.io cephobjectrealms.ceph.rook.io cephobjectzonegroups.ceph.rook.io cephobjectzones.ceph.rook.io cephrbdmirrors.ceph.rook.io --wait=true --timeout=5m
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  8. To ensure that OpenShift Container Storage is uninstalled completely, on the OpenShift Container Platform Web Console,

    1. Click Home Overview to access the dashboard.
    2. Verify that the Persistent Storage and Object Service tabs no longer appear next to the Cluster tab.

Use this section to clean up the monitoring stack from OpenShift Container Storage.

The PVCs that are created as a part of configuring the monitoring stack are in the openshift-monitoring namespace.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. List the pods and PVCs that are currently running in the openshift-monitoring namespace. 

    $ oc get pod,pvc -n openshift-monitoring
NAME                           READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
pod/alertmanager-main-0         3/3     Running   0          8d
pod/alertmanager-main-1         3/3     Running   0          8d
pod/alertmanager-main-2         3/3     Running   0          8d
pod/cluster-monitoring-
operator-84457656d-pkrxm        1/1     Running   0          8d
pod/grafana-79ccf6689f-2ll28    2/2     Running   0          8d
pod/kube-state-metrics-
7d86fb966-rvd9w                 3/3     Running   0          8d
pod/node-exporter-25894         2/2     Running   0          8d
pod/node-exporter-4dsd7         2/2     Running   0          8d
pod/node-exporter-6p4zc         2/2     Running   0          8d
pod/node-exporter-jbjvg         2/2     Running   0          8d
pod/node-exporter-jj4t5         2/2     Running   0          6d18h
pod/node-exporter-k856s         2/2     Running   0          6d18h
pod/node-exporter-rf8gn         2/2     Running   0          8d
pod/node-exporter-rmb5m         2/2     Running   0          6d18h
pod/node-exporter-zj7kx         2/2     Running   0          8d
pod/openshift-state-metrics-
59dbd4f654-4clng                3/3     Running   0          8d
pod/prometheus-adapter-
5df5865596-k8dzn                1/1     Running   0          7d23h
pod/prometheus-adapter-
5df5865596-n2gj9                1/1     Running   0          7d23h
pod/prometheus-k8s-0            6/6     Running   1          8d
pod/prometheus-k8s-1            6/6     Running   1          8d
pod/prometheus-operator-
55cfb858c9-c4zd9                1/1     Running   0          6d21h
pod/telemeter-client-
78fc8fc97d-2rgfp                3/3     Running   0          8d

NAME                                                              STATUS   VOLUME                                     CAPACITY   ACCESS MODES   STORAGECLASS                  AGE
persistentvolumeclaim/my-alertmanager-claim-alertmanager-main-0   Bound    pvc-0d519c4f-15a5-11ea-baa0-026d231574aa   40Gi       RWO            ocs-external-storagecluster-ceph-rbd   8d
persistentvolumeclaim/my-alertmanager-claim-alertmanager-main-1   Bound    pvc-0d5a9825-15a5-11ea-baa0-026d231574aa   40Gi       RWO            ocs-external-storagecluster-ceph-rbd   8d
persistentvolumeclaim/my-alertmanager-claim-alertmanager-main-2   Bound    pvc-0d6413dc-15a5-11ea-baa0-026d231574aa   40Gi       RWO            ocs-external-storagecluster-ceph-rbd   8d
persistentvolumeclaim/my-prometheus-claim-prometheus-k8s-0        Bound    pvc-0b7c19b0-15a5-11ea-baa0-026d231574aa   40Gi       RWO            ocs-external-storagecluster-ceph-rbd   8d
persistentvolumeclaim/my-prometheus-claim-prometheus-k8s-1        Bound    pvc-0b8aed3f-15a5-11ea-baa0-026d231574aa   40Gi       RWO            ocs-external-storagecluster-ceph-rbd   8d
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  2. Edit the monitoring configmap. 

    $ oc -n openshift-monitoring edit configmap cluster-monitoring-config
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  3. Remove any config sections that reference the OpenShift Container Storage storage classes as shown in the following example and save it.

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    Before editing

    .
.
.
apiVersion: v1
data:
  config.yaml: |
    alertmanagerMain:
      volumeClaimTemplate:
        metadata:
          name: my-alertmanager-claim
        spec:
          resources:
            requests:
              storage: 40Gi
          storageClassName: ocs-external-storagecluster-ceph-rbd
    prometheusK8s:
      volumeClaimTemplate:
        metadata:
          name: my-prometheus-claim
        spec:
          resources:
            requests:
              storage: 40Gi
          storageClassName: ocs-external-storagecluster-ceph-rbd
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: "2019-12-02T07:47:29Z"
  name: cluster-monitoring-config
  namespace: openshift-monitoring
  resourceVersion: "22110"
  selfLink: /api/v1/namespaces/openshift-monitoring/configmaps/cluster-monitoring-config
  uid: fd6d988b-14d7-11ea-84ff-066035b9efa8


.
.
.
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    After editing

    .
.
.
apiVersion: v1
data:
  config.yaml: |
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: "2019-11-21T13:07:05Z"
  name: cluster-monitoring-config
  namespace: openshift-monitoring
  resourceVersion: "404352"
  selfLink: /api/v1/namespaces/openshift-monitoring/configmaps/cluster-monitoring-config
  uid: d12c796a-0c5f-11ea-9832-063cd735b81c
.
.
.
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    In this example, alertmanagerMain and prometheusK8s monitoring components are using the OpenShift Container Storage PVCs.

  4. List the pods consuming the PVC.

    In this example, the alertmanagerMain and prometheusK8s pods that were consuming the PVCs are in the Terminating state. You can delete the PVCs once these pods are no longer using OpenShift Container Storage PVC. 

    $ oc get pod,pvc -n openshift-monitoring
NAME                                               READY   STATUS      RESTARTS AGE
pod/alertmanager-main-0                            3/3     Terminating   0      10h
pod/alertmanager-main-1                            3/3     Terminating   0      10h
pod/alertmanager-main-2                            3/3     Terminating   0      10h
pod/cluster-monitoring-operator-84cd9df668-zhjfn   1/1     Running       0      18h
pod/grafana-5db6fd97f8-pmtbf                       2/2     Running       0      10h
pod/kube-state-metrics-895899678-z2r9q             3/3     Running       0      10h
pod/node-exporter-4njxv                            2/2     Running       0      18h
pod/node-exporter-b8ckz                            2/2     Running       0      11h
pod/node-exporter-c2vp5                            2/2     Running       0      18h
pod/node-exporter-cq65n                            2/2     Running       0      18h
pod/node-exporter-f5sm7                            2/2     Running       0      11h
pod/node-exporter-f852c                            2/2     Running       0      18h
pod/node-exporter-l9zn7                            2/2     Running       0      11h
pod/node-exporter-ngbs8                            2/2     Running       0      18h
pod/node-exporter-rv4v9                            2/2     Running       0      18h
pod/openshift-state-metrics-77d5f699d8-69q5x       3/3     Running       0      10h
pod/prometheus-adapter-765465b56-4tbxx             1/1     Running       0      10h
pod/prometheus-adapter-765465b56-s2qg2             1/1     Running       0      10h
pod/prometheus-k8s-0                               6/6     Terminating   1      9m47s
pod/prometheus-k8s-1                               6/6     Terminating   1      9m47s
pod/prometheus-operator-cbfd89f9-ldnwc             1/1     Running       0      43m
pod/telemeter-client-7b5ddb4489-2xfpz              3/3     Running       0      10h

NAME                                                      STATUS  VOLUME                                     CAPACITY   ACCESS MODES   STORAGECLASS                  AGE
persistentvolumeclaim/ocs-alertmanager-claim-alertmanager-main-0   Bound    pvc-2eb79797-1fed-11ea-93e1-0a88476a6a64   40Gi       RWO            ocs-external-storagecluster-ceph-rbd   19h
persistentvolumeclaim/ocs-alertmanager-claim-alertmanager-main-1   Bound    pvc-2ebeee54-1fed-11ea-93e1-0a88476a6a64   40Gi       RWO            ocs-external-storagecluster-ceph-rbd   19h
persistentvolumeclaim/ocs-alertmanager-claim-alertmanager-main-2   Bound    pvc-2ec6a9cf-1fed-11ea-93e1-0a88476a6a64   40Gi       RWO            ocs-external-storagecluster-ceph-rbd   19h
persistentvolumeclaim/ocs-prometheus-claim-prometheus-k8s-0        Bound    pvc-3162a80c-1fed-11ea-93e1-0a88476a6a64   40Gi       RWO            ocs-external-storagecluster-ceph-rbd   19h
persistentvolumeclaim/ocs-prometheus-claim-prometheus-k8s-1        Bound    pvc-316e99e2-1fed-11ea-93e1-0a88476a6a64   40Gi       RWO            ocs-external-storagecluster-ceph-rbd   19h
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  5. Delete relevant PVCs. Make sure you delete all the PVCs that are consuming the storage classes. 

    $ oc delete -n openshift-monitoring pvc <pvc-name> --wait=true --timeout=5m
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Use this section to clean up OpenShift Container Platform registry from OpenShift Container Storage. If you want to configure an alternative storage, see image registry

The PVCs that are created as a part of configuring OpenShift Container Platform registry are in the openshift-image-registry namespace.

Prerequisites

  • The image registry should have been configured to use an OpenShift Container Storage PVC.

Procedure

  1. Edit the configs.imageregistry.operator.openshift.io object and remove the content in the storage section. 

    $ oc edit configs.imageregistry.operator.openshift.io
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    Before editing 

    .
.
.
storage:
  pvc:
    claim: registry-cephfs-rwx-pvc
.
.
.
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    After editing 

    .
.
.
storage:
  emptyDir: {}
.
.
.
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    + In this example, the PVC is called registry-cephfs-rwx-pvc, which is now safe to delete.

  2. Delete the PVC. 

    $ oc delete pvc <pvc-name> -n openshift-image-registry --wait=true --timeout=5m
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Use this section to clean up the cluster logging operator from OpenShift Container Storage.

The PVCs that are created as a part of configuring cluster logging operator are in the openshift-logging namespace.

Prerequisites

  • The cluster logging instance should have been configured to use OpenShift Container Storage PVCs.

Procedure

  1. Remove the ClusterLogging instance in the namespace. 

    $ oc delete clusterlogging instance -n openshift-logging --wait=true --timeout=5m
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    The PVCs in the openshift-logging namespace are now safe to delete.

  2. Delete PVCs. 

    $ oc delete pvc <pvc-name> -n openshift-logging --wait=true --timeout=5m
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