Uninstall Elastic Cloud Enterprise

ECE

This guide provides instructions for uninstalling Elastic Cloud Enterprise from a specific host within an Elastic Cloud Enterprise platform. This process removes the Elastic Cloud Enterprise software from the host but does not uninstall the entire Elastic Cloud Enterprise platform.

You might need to remove Elastic Cloud Enterprise for one of the following reasons:

• The installation process does not complete successfully and you can't troubleshoot the issue.
• You are de-provisioning a host and want to remove the installed Elastic Cloud Enterprise software.

You can remove Elastic Cloud Enterprise by removing all containers on the host:

• If using Docker:

  docker rm -f frc-runners-runner frc-allocators-allocator $(docker ps -a -q); sudo rm -rf /mnt/data/elastic/ && docker ps -a
  

• If using Podman:

  sudo podman rm -f frc-runners-runner frc-allocators-allocator $(sudo podman ps -a -q); sudo rm -rf /mnt/data/elastic && sudo podman ps -a
  

If you plan to reinstall Elastic Cloud Enterprise on the host, make sure you delete the host from the Cloud UI first. Reinstallation can fail if the host is still associated with your old Elastic Cloud Enterprise installation.