Remove from OpenShift - Poolside

Overview

These steps remove the inference Helm release, its Kubernetes resources, and the external artifacts used by a model inference deployment on OpenShift. The removal process includes the following phases:

1. Uninstall the inference release: Uninstall the inference Helm release.
2. Delete cluster resources: Delete the poolside-models namespace, which removes the remaining workloads, secrets, ConfigMaps, Routes, and persistent volume claims.
3. Clean up external artifacts: Remove remaining artifacts such as DNS records, TLS certificates, container images, and S3 objects.

Prerequisites

These instructions assume that you deployed model inference using Install on OpenShift. Before you start, make sure you have:

• Cluster administrator access to the OpenShift cluster
• helm 3.12 or later
• oc or kubectl

Step 1: Uninstall the inference release

List the Helm releases in the poolside-models namespace:

helm list -n poolside-models

Uninstall the inference release:

helm uninstall inference -n poolside-models

Wait for the inference pods to stop. Continue when oc get pods -n poolside-models shows no Poolside pods remaining:

oc get pods -n poolside-models

Step 2: Delete cluster resources

Deleting the namespace removes the remaining workloads, secrets, ConfigMaps, Routes, and persistent volume claims that the inference stack created. Delete the poolside-models namespace:

oc delete namespace poolside-models

Step 3: Clean up external artifacts

Clean up the following external resources separately. Remove only the resources that you no longer need.

Container images
Delete the Poolside container images and repositories from your registry. The exact procedure depends on the registry you use.

S3-compatible object storage
Delete the model checkpoints from the bucket you referenced in models.<key>.model in the inference_values.yaml file you used to install:

aws s3 rm s3://<bucket-name>/checkpoints --recursive --region <aws-region>

If you use a non-AWS S3 endpoint, add the --endpoint-url flag and set it to your S3 endpoint URL. If your bucket only stored Poolside data, you can delete the bucket itself.

TLS certificates and DNS records
Remove the DNS records that pointed to your Route host, and revoke or delete any TLS certificates that you issued for that hostname.

Local files
Delete the extracted Helm bundle directory, your inference_values.yaml file, and any TLS material (tls.crt, tls.key, ca-bundle.crt) that you kept on your workstation.