Delete behaviour

[volatilemolotov]

Hello,

Im a bit confused and also not able to figure out from the docs on how deletion should work. I found that you need to add prune: true to kustomization in order to have the deployed resources deleted after the kustomization itself is deleted. Now what the questions are:

• If kustomization remains in the git will that cause a redeploy?
• If we suspend it first by adding suspended: true in git will that cause rest of the resources not get deleted
  Thanks

[makkes]

If kustomization remains in the git will that cause a redeploy?

If you delete a bootstrap Kustomization (one that has no parent Kustomization), then Flux will have no way to re-create it. If you delete a Kustomization that has been created by another Kustomization (or a Helm release), it will be re-created the next time the GitRepository resource is reconciled.

[volatilemolotov]

Delete how? flux cli delete or remove from git?

Like the question is can i use CLI to delete a kustomization but somehow keep the files and kustomization in git. Just disable it for now

[makkes]

If you want a resource to be deleted from the cluster but keep it in Git, you have several options, depending on how Flux managed the resource. If you have a kustomization.yaml in your Git repo, just remove the resource file from the resources field. If your Kustomization's .spec.prune field is set to prune, the resource will be removed from the cluster but you'll still have it in Git.