Ceph: Let’s delete everything, Part 1

Deleting Ceph Object Gateway

So far we created, created and created. Now delete everything.

We deployed a Ceph cluster and create pools and rbd images, file systems and object gateways. But we never delete anything yet. Now, we want to delete everything.

Ceph Object Gateway

Let’s start with object gateway. First we will delete buckets. From the Ceph dashboard, we can check list of buckets.

Ceph Object Gateway bucket list

We can also delete buckets in the dashboard itself. To delete test-bucket bucket using command, we can use the following command.

sudo radosgw-admin bucket rm --bucket="test-bucket"

Now, let’s delete users. We can use the dashboard for user deletion.

Ceph Object Gateway user list

To get a user list on terminal, use

sudo radosgw-admin user list

To delete users, use radosgw user rm.

sudo radosgw-admin user rm --uid=rgw-dev
sudo radosgw-admin user rm --uid=rgw_system

We did not delete the dashboard user. This user was automatically created when we…