Deleting your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service cluster

You can delete your cluster by running the following command, making sure to replace the cluster name with that of your own:

$ eksctl delete cluster --name hilarious-wardrobe-1717847351

Deleting the cluster takes less time to run than when we launched it; in fact, it takes around 5 minutes.

As before, eksctl gives you details on what it is doing as it deletes the resources:

[i]  deleting EKS cluster "hilarious-wardrobe-1717847351"
[i]  will drain 0 unmanaged nodegroup(s) in cluster "hilarious-wardrobe-1717847351"
[i]  starting parallel draining, max in-flight of 1
[i]  deleted 0 Fargate profile(s)

The first thing that is updated is the local kubectl configuration, as we can see here:

[✔]  kubeconfig has been updated

Then, any resources that have been launched as part of deploying workloads into our cluster are terminated:

[i]  cleaning up AWS load balancers created...