Deregistering a cluster - Amazon EKS
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Deregistering a cluster

If you are finished using a connected cluster, you can deregister it. After it's deregistered, the cluster is no longer visible in the Amazon EKS console.

You must have the following permissions to call the deregisterCluster API:

  • eks:DeregisterCluster

  • ssm:DeleteActivation

  • ssm:DeregisterManagedInstance

eksctl
Prerequisites

  • eksctl version 0.68 or later must be installed. To install or upgrade it, see Getting started with eksctl.

  • Ensure the Amazon EKS Connector agent role was created. .

To deregister your cluster with eksctl
Amazon CLI
Prerequisites

  • Amazon CLI must be installed. To install or upgrade it, see Installing the Amazon CLI.

  • Ensure the Amazon EKS Connector agent role was created. .

Deregister the connected cluster.

aws eks deregister-cluster \
    --name my-cluster \
    --region region-code
Amazon Web Services Management Console

  1. Open the Amazon EKS console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/eks/home#/clusters.

  2. Choose Clusters.

  3. On the Clusters page, select the connected cluster and select Deregister.

  4. Confirm that you want to deregister the cluster.

To clean up the resources on your Kubernetes cluster.

  1. Delete the Amazon EKS Connector YAML file from your Kubernetes cluster.

    kubectl delete -f eks-connector.yaml

  2. If you created clusterrole or clusterrolebindings for additional IAM principals to access the cluster, delete them from your Kubernetes cluster.