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Calico Enterprise 3.19 (latest) documentation

Manage and maintain manually installed Calico Enterprise for Windows services

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The manual method for installing Calico Enterprise for Windows is deprecated in favor of using the Operator and Windows HostProcess containers (HPC). Support for this method will be dropped in a future Calico Enterprise version.

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Start, stop, and update Calico Enterprise for Windows services on the Linux control plane node, and uninstall for Calico Enterprise for Windows.

How to​

Start and stop Calico Enterprise for Windows services​

  • Install and boot Calico Enterprise for Windows: install-calico.ps1
  • Start Calico Enterprise for Windows services:start-calico.ps1
  • Stop Calico Enterprise for Windows services: stop-calico.ps1

Update Calico Enterprise services​

To change the parameters defined in config.ps1:

  • Run uninstall-calico.ps1 to remove Calico Enterprise for Windows service configuration
  • Modify the configuration
  • Run install-calico.ps1to reinstall Calico Enterprise for Windows.

Because config.ps1 is imported by the various component startup scripts, additional environment variables can be added, as documented in the Calico Enterprise reference guide.

Update service wrapper configuration​

The nssm command supports changing a number of configuration options for the Calico Enterprise services. For example, to adjust the maximum size of the Felix log file before it is rotated:

nssm set CalicoFelix AppRotateBytes 1048576

Uninstall Calico Enterprise for Windows from Windows nodes​

The following steps removes Calico Enterprise for Windows (for example to change configuration), but keeps the cluster running.

  1. Remove all pods from the Windows nodes.

  2. On each Windows node, run the uninstall script:

    C:\TigeraCalico\uninstall-calico.ps1
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    If you are uninstalling to change configuration, make sure that you run the uninstall script with the old configuration file.

Uninstall kubelet and kube-proxy services from Windows nodes​

The following steps uninstall kubelet/kube-proxy services if they were installed by running C:\TigeraCalico\kubernetes\install-kube-services.ps1.

  1. Remove all pods from the Windows nodes.

  2. On each Windows node, run the uninstall script:

    C:\TigeraCalico\kubernetes\uninstall-kube-services.ps1

  3. If desired, delete the C:\TigeraCalico directory.