Uninstall Istio-based service mesh add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service

This article shows you how to uninstall the Istio-based service mesh add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster and delete sample resources created in the Getting Started guide.

Uninstall the add-on

Disabling the service mesh add-on removes all Istio components from your cluster. This includes Istio CRDs and custom resources, the Istio control plane, ingress and egress gateway configurations, and the managed namespaces aks-istio-system and aks-istio-ingress (along with any resources in them). To uninstall the add-on, run the following command:

az aks mesh disable --resource-group ${RESOURCE_GROUP} --name ${CLUSTER}

Clean up sample resources

Use kubectl delete to delete the sample application if it was installed:

kubectl delete -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/istio/istio/release-1.24/samples/bookinfo/platform/kube/bookinfo.yaml