Uninstalling Linkerd

If you are evaluating Linkerd or doing some management in your clusters, for example, it could be useful to uninstall Linkerd. For this, follow the next steps:

1. Uninstall support for additional features of Linkerd (called viz) as follows:

   $ linkerd viz uninstall | kubectl delete -f -

2. Uninstall the Linkerd control plane. This is going to uninstall the rest of the core Linkerd components. For this, run the following command:

   $ linkerd uninstall | kubectl delete -f -

Now, Linkerd is uninstalled from your cluster. To end this chapter, let’s move to the last section to explore some useful ideas of where you can use Linkerd.