Force delete of IBM Bluemix Kubernetes Cluster

5/15/2017

I tried to set up a new Kubernetes cluster on IBM Bluemix and after a while I received the message that the deploy failed. To start over again I have tried to delete the cluster from the Bluemix interface, with no success. The error messages are not consistent, and go from elaborate messages error messages to the most common: 500: internal server error.

The command line does not help either. I expected this to work

 bx cs cluster-rm k8s_demo

But the most of the time it leads to and EOF error. Somehow internal connections are an issue because

bx cs clusters

leads to the error

FAILED                                         
unable to connect to https://us-south.containers.bluemix.net/v1/clusters, please check your Internet Connection

most of the time. Every so often a list including the k8s_demo cluster appears, but being as persistent with the cluster-rm command has not brought such luck that the cluster is deleted.

Is there any other way I can try to start over again? Apart from setting up another Bluemix account of course, something I would prefer to avoid.

-- FvD
ibm-cloud
kubernetes

1 Answer

5/16/2017

If this problem is continuing, I would suggest contacting IBM Support. They'll have the tools to troubleshoot what has happened with the cluster provisioning and/or deleting.

-- bhpratt
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