How can i remove kustomization/flux-system

[wibed]

i trying to remove flux without deleting the whole cluster.

and stuck at the following step: kubectl -n flux-system delete kustomization flux-system
it does not remove the resource, i have already removed any resource related to flux from the cluster.
i looked for any other related resource but cant seem to find it.

i tried, but did not help:

• deleting the crd's, but this just renders the kustomization not queriable.
• flux delete kustomization flux-system

[souleb]

Flux sets a finalizer on the resource. Edit it with kubectl and delete the finalizer.

[wibed]

@souleb

i tried patching the kustomization with

kubectl -n flux-system patch kustomization flux-system -p '{"metadata":{"finalizers":null}}'

it is the same approach id use on crd's. but it results in a
Unsupported Media Type- Error

[wibed]

i succeeded adding the --type=merge; to the argument list

[stefanprodan]

Please use flux uninstall, docs here: https://fluxcd.io/docs/installation/#uninstall