Uninstalling DDEV¶
A DDEV-Local installation consists of:
- The binary itself (self-contained)
- The .ddev folder in a project
- The ~/.ddev folder where various global items are stored.
- The docker images and containers created.
- Any entries in /etc/hosts
Please make backups of your databases before deleting projects or uninstalling. You can do this with ddev snapshot or ddev export-db.
You can use ddev clean to uninstall the vast majority of things DDEV has touched. For example, ddev clean <project> or ddev clean --all.
To uninstall just a project: ddev delete <project>. This removes any hostnames in /etc/hosts and removes your database. If you don't want it to make a database backup/snapshot on the way down: ddev delete --omit-snapshot <project>
To remove all /etc/hosts entries owned by ddev: ddev hostname --remove-inactive
To remove the global .ddev directory: rm -r ~/.ddev
If you installed docker just for ddev and want to uninstall it with all containers and images, just uninstall it for your version of Docker.
Otherwise:
- Remove Docker images from before the current ddev release with
ddev delete images. - To remove all ddev docker containers that might still exist:
docker rm $(docker ps -a | awk '/ddev/ { print $1 }') - To remove all ddev docker images that might exist:
docker rmi $(docker images | awk '/ddev/ {print $3}') - To remove all Docker images of any type (does no harm, they'll just be re-downloaded):
docker rmi -f $(docker images -q) - To remove any docker volumes:
docker volume rm $(docker volume ls | awk '/ddev|-mariadb/ { print $2 }')
To remove the ddev binary:
- On macOS or Linux with Homebrew,
brew uninstall ddev - For linux or other simple installs, just remove the binary, for example
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/ddev - On Windows (if you used the ddev Windows installer) use the uninstall on the start menu or in the "Add or Remove Programs" section of Windows settings.