Delete an installed edition
After multiple successive editions of an application are deployed and rolled out, which is not unusual in the life span of many production applications, we might have a number of editions stored in your repository that are no longer needed. We can delete an active edition without performing a rollout to a new edition.
- We must have an installed, active edition.
- We must have a configurator or administrator administrative role.
An edition can exist in one of three states. Therefore, the method for deleting or uninstalling an edition varies slightly based on its current state.
- Inactive: The edition is neither assigned for use in any deployment target, nor the default. We can remove an inactive edition at any time.
- Active: The edition is currently assigned for use in one or more deployment targets. Use caution when you delete an active edition, especially if the edition is started. Stop the edition first, remove any routing rules that reference the edition, deactivate it, and we can then remove or uninstall the edition. After you delete an active edition, we must update the routing rules, and click Apply and Save regardless of what item is displayed in the list.
- Validate: The edition is currently assigned for use in the cloned deployment targets. For more information about removing an application in validation mode, read about canceling an application validation.
Tasks
- Remove any routing rules that reference the edition we are uninstalling. Click Applications > Enterprise applications > application_name or Applications > All applications > application_name. Click the Routing policies tab and select the appropriate routing rules.
- Click Applications > Edition control center. Select the target application.
- Stop the application edition.
- Deactivate the active edition. Select the edition, and click Deactivate.
Instead of deactivating an active edition, we can replace it with a new edition. We can perform a rollout to a new edition, which makes the old edition inactive. Use rollout to ensure an interruption-free deactivation of the edition we want to delete.
- Uninstall the application. Click Applications > Enterprise applications or Applications > All Applications. For an enterprise application, select the edition to uninstall, click Uninstall. For a middleware application, select the edition, and click Remove. We are not required to restart the servers.
- Save and synchronize changes.
We removed the edition.
Related:
Edition compatibility Perform a rollout on an edition Validate an edition Canceling an application validation Intelligent Management: administrative roles and privileges Intelligent Management: application edition management administrative tasks