Why are PersistentVolumeClaims treated specially by some OpenShift commands





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Why does the scope oc get all (and oc delete all --all) in OpenShift 3.10 not include components of type PersistentVolumeClaim as well? A separate oc get pvc (and oc delete pvc --all) is required.



Is there a particular reason for treating these objects special? (Apparently they are only special in some regards; for instance, application templates can create them quite normally along with other components.)



Update Components of type Secret are also treated special in a perhaps similar way and for similar reasons. One reason I can think of is that these components typically may have longer lifetimes than applications.










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  • Having all map to all component types would be dangerous, so good that it doesn't and it only refers to the few that it does. Also, you should really use oc delete all --all as too much risk of deleting stuff you didn't mean to. Learn to use labels and then use a selector when deleting things. See cookbook.openshift.org/working-with-resource-objects/…

    – Graham Dumpleton
    Nov 23 '18 at 20:06











  • Whoops, that should have been "you should not really use oc delete all --all".

    – Graham Dumpleton
    Nov 24 '18 at 4:01











  • @GrahamDumpleton Yes, I am actually using oc delete all --selector app=<app> in cases when I want to delete all.

    – rookie099
    Nov 24 '18 at 5:08








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    It is not (completely?) OpenShift's fault. This is "inherited" from Kubernetes. There are few discussions, like this one here - github.com/kubernetes/kubectl/issues/151. I remember having to list explicitly secrets, sa, templates, configmaps...after all in oc get all,... or oc delete all,... --selector=<...> -n <project>

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Why does the scope oc get all (and oc delete all --all) in OpenShift 3.10 not include components of type PersistentVolumeClaim as well? A separate oc get pvc (and oc delete pvc --all) is required.



Is there a particular reason for treating these objects special? (Apparently they are only special in some regards; for instance, application templates can create them quite normally along with other components.)



Update Components of type Secret are also treated special in a perhaps similar way and for similar reasons. One reason I can think of is that these components typically may have longer lifetimes than applications.










share|improve this question

























  • Having all map to all component types would be dangerous, so good that it doesn't and it only refers to the few that it does. Also, you should really use oc delete all --all as too much risk of deleting stuff you didn't mean to. Learn to use labels and then use a selector when deleting things. See cookbook.openshift.org/working-with-resource-objects/…

    – Graham Dumpleton
    Nov 23 '18 at 20:06











  • Whoops, that should have been "you should not really use oc delete all --all".

    – Graham Dumpleton
    Nov 24 '18 at 4:01











  • @GrahamDumpleton Yes, I am actually using oc delete all --selector app=<app> in cases when I want to delete all.

    – rookie099
    Nov 24 '18 at 5:08








  • 1





    It is not (completely?) OpenShift's fault. This is "inherited" from Kubernetes. There are few discussions, like this one here - github.com/kubernetes/kubectl/issues/151. I remember having to list explicitly secrets, sa, templates, configmaps...after all in oc get all,... or oc delete all,... --selector=<...> -n <project>

    – apisim
    Nov 26 '18 at 3:35
















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Why does the scope oc get all (and oc delete all --all) in OpenShift 3.10 not include components of type PersistentVolumeClaim as well? A separate oc get pvc (and oc delete pvc --all) is required.



Is there a particular reason for treating these objects special? (Apparently they are only special in some regards; for instance, application templates can create them quite normally along with other components.)



Update Components of type Secret are also treated special in a perhaps similar way and for similar reasons. One reason I can think of is that these components typically may have longer lifetimes than applications.










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Why does the scope oc get all (and oc delete all --all) in OpenShift 3.10 not include components of type PersistentVolumeClaim as well? A separate oc get pvc (and oc delete pvc --all) is required.



Is there a particular reason for treating these objects special? (Apparently they are only special in some regards; for instance, application templates can create them quite normally along with other components.)



Update Components of type Secret are also treated special in a perhaps similar way and for similar reasons. One reason I can think of is that these components typically may have longer lifetimes than applications.







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  • Having all map to all component types would be dangerous, so good that it doesn't and it only refers to the few that it does. Also, you should really use oc delete all --all as too much risk of deleting stuff you didn't mean to. Learn to use labels and then use a selector when deleting things. See cookbook.openshift.org/working-with-resource-objects/…

    – Graham Dumpleton
    Nov 23 '18 at 20:06











  • Whoops, that should have been "you should not really use oc delete all --all".

    – Graham Dumpleton
    Nov 24 '18 at 4:01











  • @GrahamDumpleton Yes, I am actually using oc delete all --selector app=<app> in cases when I want to delete all.

    – rookie099
    Nov 24 '18 at 5:08








  • 1





    It is not (completely?) OpenShift's fault. This is "inherited" from Kubernetes. There are few discussions, like this one here - github.com/kubernetes/kubectl/issues/151. I remember having to list explicitly secrets, sa, templates, configmaps...after all in oc get all,... or oc delete all,... --selector=<...> -n <project>

    – apisim
    Nov 26 '18 at 3:35





















  • Having all map to all component types would be dangerous, so good that it doesn't and it only refers to the few that it does. Also, you should really use oc delete all --all as too much risk of deleting stuff you didn't mean to. Learn to use labels and then use a selector when deleting things. See cookbook.openshift.org/working-with-resource-objects/…

    – Graham Dumpleton
    Nov 23 '18 at 20:06











  • Whoops, that should have been "you should not really use oc delete all --all".

    – Graham Dumpleton
    Nov 24 '18 at 4:01











  • @GrahamDumpleton Yes, I am actually using oc delete all --selector app=<app> in cases when I want to delete all.

    – rookie099
    Nov 24 '18 at 5:08








  • 1





    It is not (completely?) OpenShift's fault. This is "inherited" from Kubernetes. There are few discussions, like this one here - github.com/kubernetes/kubectl/issues/151. I remember having to list explicitly secrets, sa, templates, configmaps...after all in oc get all,... or oc delete all,... --selector=<...> -n <project>

    – apisim
    Nov 26 '18 at 3:35



















Having all map to all component types would be dangerous, so good that it doesn't and it only refers to the few that it does. Also, you should really use oc delete all --all as too much risk of deleting stuff you didn't mean to. Learn to use labels and then use a selector when deleting things. See cookbook.openshift.org/working-with-resource-objects/…

– Graham Dumpleton
Nov 23 '18 at 20:06





Having all map to all component types would be dangerous, so good that it doesn't and it only refers to the few that it does. Also, you should really use oc delete all --all as too much risk of deleting stuff you didn't mean to. Learn to use labels and then use a selector when deleting things. See cookbook.openshift.org/working-with-resource-objects/…

– Graham Dumpleton
Nov 23 '18 at 20:06













Whoops, that should have been "you should not really use oc delete all --all".

– Graham Dumpleton
Nov 24 '18 at 4:01





Whoops, that should have been "you should not really use oc delete all --all".

– Graham Dumpleton
Nov 24 '18 at 4:01













@GrahamDumpleton Yes, I am actually using oc delete all --selector app=<app> in cases when I want to delete all.

– rookie099
Nov 24 '18 at 5:08







@GrahamDumpleton Yes, I am actually using oc delete all --selector app=<app> in cases when I want to delete all.

– rookie099
Nov 24 '18 at 5:08






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It is not (completely?) OpenShift's fault. This is "inherited" from Kubernetes. There are few discussions, like this one here - github.com/kubernetes/kubectl/issues/151. I remember having to list explicitly secrets, sa, templates, configmaps...after all in oc get all,... or oc delete all,... --selector=<...> -n <project>

– apisim
Nov 26 '18 at 3:35







It is not (completely?) OpenShift's fault. This is "inherited" from Kubernetes. There are few discussions, like this one here - github.com/kubernetes/kubectl/issues/151. I remember having to list explicitly secrets, sa, templates, configmaps...after all in oc get all,... or oc delete all,... --selector=<...> -n <project>

– apisim
Nov 26 '18 at 3:35














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I have by now concluded (also from the comments received) that is behavior is intended by design to guard against accidental deletions of dear persistent storage whose lifetime may substantially exceed single (versions of) applications.



As a consequence, I have now refactored the application template a bit. So far, a single template (YAML file) was in charge of creating all components (except secrets). This led to an "unbalanced" situation which required one oc new-app --template=app to create the app, but two oc deletes (oc delete all --selector app=... and oc delete pvc --selector app=..) to delete entirely. After splitting up the template into app.yaml and yaml.yaml the new, "balanced" arrangement is like this:



# create app (including its persistent storage)
oc new-app --template=app
oc new-app --template=pvc

# delete app (including its persistent storage)
oc delete all --selector app=...
oc delete pvc --selector app=...


I still leave secrets out of this scope and create them with oc create secret once up front.






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    I have by now concluded (also from the comments received) that is behavior is intended by design to guard against accidental deletions of dear persistent storage whose lifetime may substantially exceed single (versions of) applications.



    As a consequence, I have now refactored the application template a bit. So far, a single template (YAML file) was in charge of creating all components (except secrets). This led to an "unbalanced" situation which required one oc new-app --template=app to create the app, but two oc deletes (oc delete all --selector app=... and oc delete pvc --selector app=..) to delete entirely. After splitting up the template into app.yaml and yaml.yaml the new, "balanced" arrangement is like this:



    # create app (including its persistent storage)
    oc new-app --template=app
    oc new-app --template=pvc

    # delete app (including its persistent storage)
    oc delete all --selector app=...
    oc delete pvc --selector app=...


    I still leave secrets out of this scope and create them with oc create secret once up front.






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      I have by now concluded (also from the comments received) that is behavior is intended by design to guard against accidental deletions of dear persistent storage whose lifetime may substantially exceed single (versions of) applications.



      As a consequence, I have now refactored the application template a bit. So far, a single template (YAML file) was in charge of creating all components (except secrets). This led to an "unbalanced" situation which required one oc new-app --template=app to create the app, but two oc deletes (oc delete all --selector app=... and oc delete pvc --selector app=..) to delete entirely. After splitting up the template into app.yaml and yaml.yaml the new, "balanced" arrangement is like this:



      # create app (including its persistent storage)
      oc new-app --template=app
      oc new-app --template=pvc

      # delete app (including its persistent storage)
      oc delete all --selector app=...
      oc delete pvc --selector app=...


      I still leave secrets out of this scope and create them with oc create secret once up front.






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        I have by now concluded (also from the comments received) that is behavior is intended by design to guard against accidental deletions of dear persistent storage whose lifetime may substantially exceed single (versions of) applications.



        As a consequence, I have now refactored the application template a bit. So far, a single template (YAML file) was in charge of creating all components (except secrets). This led to an "unbalanced" situation which required one oc new-app --template=app to create the app, but two oc deletes (oc delete all --selector app=... and oc delete pvc --selector app=..) to delete entirely. After splitting up the template into app.yaml and yaml.yaml the new, "balanced" arrangement is like this:



        # create app (including its persistent storage)
        oc new-app --template=app
        oc new-app --template=pvc

        # delete app (including its persistent storage)
        oc delete all --selector app=...
        oc delete pvc --selector app=...


        I still leave secrets out of this scope and create them with oc create secret once up front.






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        I have by now concluded (also from the comments received) that is behavior is intended by design to guard against accidental deletions of dear persistent storage whose lifetime may substantially exceed single (versions of) applications.



        As a consequence, I have now refactored the application template a bit. So far, a single template (YAML file) was in charge of creating all components (except secrets). This led to an "unbalanced" situation which required one oc new-app --template=app to create the app, but two oc deletes (oc delete all --selector app=... and oc delete pvc --selector app=..) to delete entirely. After splitting up the template into app.yaml and yaml.yaml the new, "balanced" arrangement is like this:



        # create app (including its persistent storage)
        oc new-app --template=app
        oc new-app --template=pvc

        # delete app (including its persistent storage)
        oc delete all --selector app=...
        oc delete pvc --selector app=...


        I still leave secrets out of this scope and create them with oc create secret once up front.







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