how to delete tiller from kubernetes cluster

Question

Tiller is not working properly in my kubernetes cluster. I want to delete everything Tiller. Tiller (2.5.1) has 1 Deployment, 1 ReplicaSet and 1 Pod.

I tried:

Answer 1

If you want to remove tiller from your cluster the cleanest way it's by removing all the components deployed during the installation.

If you already know the namespace where tiller its deployed:

$ kubectl delete all -l app=helm -n kube-system
pod "tiller-deploy-8557598fbc-5b2g7" deleted
service "tiller-deploy" deleted
deployment.apps "tiller-deploy" deleted
replicaset.apps "tiller-deploy-75f6c87b87" deleted
replicaset.apps "tiller-deploy-8557598fbc" deleted

Be careful with the command, will delete all in the namespace indicated and with the corresponding label.

where app its the label assigned and will identify all component(replication controller, deployments, service, etc).

You can describe the pod to verify the labels:

$ kubectl describes pod tiller-deploy-8557598fbc-5b2g7 -n kube-system
Name: tiller-deploy-8557598fbc-5b2g7
Namespace: kube-system
Priority: 0
PriorityClassName: 
Node: srvlpi03 / 192.168.1.133
Start Time: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:51:03 -0400
Labels: app = helm
        name = tiller
        pod-template-hash = 8557598fbc