Uninstalling

This page explains how to uninstall Anthos Service Mesh.

Uninstalling Anthos Service Mesh

Run one of the following commands to uninstall the Anthos Service Mesh components that were installed with the ASM configuration profile. These commands delete the istio-system namespace and all custom resource definitions (CRDs), including any CRDs that you applied. If you created CRDs, make sure you have copies of them.

Remove the control plane.
- If you installed Anthos Service Mesh on Anthos clusters on VMware, Anthos clusters on AWS, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, or Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service:
1. Remove the control plane:
```
istioctl manifest generate --set profile=asm-multicloud | kubectl delete --ignore-not-found=true -f -
```
2. Delete the istio-system namespace:
```
kubectl delete namespace istio-system
```
- If you installed Anthos Service Mesh on Google Kubernetes Engine:
```
istioctl manifest generate --set profile=asm-gcp | kubectl delete --ignore-not-found=true -f -
```
  This command automatically deletes the istio-system namespace.
Turn off sidecar auto-injection on your namespace(s), if it is enabled:
```
 kubectl get namespace YOUR_NAMESPACE --show-labels
```
The output is similar to the following:
```
 NAME   STATUS   AGE     LABELS
 demo   Active   4d17h   istio.io/rev=asm-181-5
```
If you see istio.io/rev= in the output under the LABELS column, remove it:
```
 kubectl label namespace YOUR_NAMESPACE istio.io/rev-
```
If you see istio-injection in the output under the LABELS column, remove it:
```
 kubectl label namespace YOUR_NAMESPACE istio-injection-
```
If you don't see either the istio.io/rev or istio-injection labels, then auto-injection wasn't enabled on the namespace.