Delete Valkey

This page guides you through the steps required to delete a Valkey instance.

Prerequisites

• You are a member of a Nais team
• You have set up command-line access

Steps

Before you delete a Valkey instance, ensure that no applications are using it. If you delete a Valkey instance in use, the applications will lose access to the data stored in the instance. Deletion of a Valkey instance can only be done through the terminal.

List Valkey instances

To list all Valkey instances belonging to your team:

Through the Nais Console

1. Open Nais Console in your browser and select your team.
2. Select the Valkey tab
3. Find the name of the Valkey instance you want to delete

Using Kubectl

kubectl get valkeys

Disable termination protection

Before your can delete a specific Valkey instance, you must first disable termination protection.

To disable termination protection, run the following command:

kubectl patch valkey <VALKEY-NAME> \
  --type json \
  -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/terminationProtection", "value": false}]'

Delete Valkey instance

To delete the Valkey instance, run the following command:

kubectl delete valkey <VALKEY-NAME>

Remove references from application manifests

Ensure that all references to the Valkey instance are removed from your application manifests:

app.yaml

spec:
-  valkey:
-    - instance: <VALKEY-INSTANCE-NAME>
-      access: <ACCESS-LEVEL>