#Deleting Instance

If the instance does not have persistence enabled, or if you need to keep the persistent data of the instance, execute the following command to delete the instance:

# delete redis instance directly
$ kubectl -n default delete redis <Instance Name>

If you want to delete the instance and also remove its persistent volume claim, you can execute the following commands:

# patch finalizer `delete-pvc` to instance
$ kubectl -n default patch redis <Instance Name> --type='merge' -p '{"metadata": {"finalizers": ["delete-pvc"]}}'

# delete redis instance with pvc
$ kubectl -n default delete redis <Instance Name>

delete-pvc is a built-in keyword in the Operator, used to instruct the operator to delete the persistent volume storage when deleting the instance.