How to completely uninstall kubernetes

Question

I installed kubernetes cluster using kubeadm following this guide. After some period of time, I decided to reinstall K8s but run into troubles with removing all rel

Answer 1

If you are clearing the cluster so that you can start again, then, in addition to what @rib47 said, I also do the following to ensure my systems are in a state ready for kubeadm init again:

kubeadm reset -f
rm -rf /etc/cni /etc/kubernetes /var/lib/dockershim /var/lib/etcd /var/lib/kubelet /var/run/kubernetes ~/.kube/*
iptables -F && iptables -X
iptables -t nat -F && iptables -t nat -X
iptables -t raw -F && iptables -t raw -X
iptables -t mangle -F && iptables -t mangle -X
systemctl restart docker

You then need to re-install docker.io, kubeadm, kubectl, and kubelet to make sure they are at the latest versions for your distribution before you re-initialize the cluster.

EDIT: Discovered that calico adds firewall rules to the raw table so that needs clearing out as well.