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Destroying the Cluster

Explore the process of safely destroying a production-ready Kubernetes cluster using kOps. Understand how to save environment variables for future cluster recreation and how to clean up associated AWS resources without removing IAM components. This lesson prepares you to manage cluster lifecycle efficiently.

Storing the environment variables

The chapter is almost finished, and we do not need the cluster anymore. We want to destroy it as soon as possible. There’s no good reason to keep it running when we’re not using it. But before we proceed with the destructive ...