Is kine being used at all when using external etcd datastore in k3s cluster? Just saw kine 0.9.3 in rc, so was wondering if I need to upgrade or it is not necessary at all, because am using external etcd datastore. Also, how to clear the external etcd datastore completely if I am re-deploying k3s on a fresh install?

No, kine is only used for SQL backends. It is bypassed for etcd.

Got it. Thanks for the information.

cluster-reset just makes it a single node cluster. If you want to clean everything off the node and start over, easiest way is to run the uninstall script.

For external etcd, normal k3s uninstall script doesn't work. I just wanna clear the etcd cluster from all data and start over with new k3s install. Cluster reset is also k3s specific command. It doesn't affect external etcd datastore it seems.

oh, if you’re on an external datastore then how to clear that datastore is kinda beyond the scope of k3s