Destroying

Use the Cloud-Native Toolkit environment to delete itself

Note: An environment administrator performs the steps on this page. See Plan Installation > Roles for the overview of the roles involved.

Not only can the Cloud-Native Toolkit create the environment, the environment can also delete itself. The environment is installed using Terraform, which stores the state of the applied modules in the workspace/{cluster name} folder. Terraform can use that state to delete what it installed.

Destroy a environment following these steps:

Run the following command to launch a Developer Tools container:
```
./launch.sh
```

In the container, change to the workspace/{cluster name} directory:

cd workspace/{cluster name}

In the container, run the destroy.sh script to apply the Terraform destroy:
```
./destroy.sh
```
Rather than directly running terraform desroy, the destroy.sh script first builds a “destroy plan” from the current state then applies that plan. Performing the destroy in this way is more reliable and allows for certain resources to be selectively destroyed/saved.

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