Last updated 2026-09-04Development preview

Uninstall Premium and export deployments

Review Premium service removal separately from exporting an accepted application deployment.


There are two different ownership changes here. Uninstall removes Premium's customer services according to a reviewed plan. Ejection exports an accepted application deployment as standalone infrastructure source so you can take over its management.

#Understand: removal and export

OperationWhat it doesWhat it does not imply
Premium uninstallRemoves the planned companion services and reports retained resourcesDelete all application data or cancel your subscription
Core ejectionWrites a reviewed standalone Pulumi project preserving resource identitiesDelete, recreate, or stop the live application
Remove an extension grantChanges an application's declared capability accessUninstall customer services

An export contains source, not the credentials or state needed to operate it. A retained cloud resource can still incur costs after uninstall. Read the result as an ownership report, not simply a success message.

#Configure: review the intended ownership change

Use the exact workspace, current installation credentials, and stable passphrase from your secret store. Identify dependent applications and inspect the accepted deployment before proceeding.

#Preview Premium uninstall

Terminal
fluffy-chainsaw-premium uninstall --check

Review the resources selected for removal, their ordering, and the retained data/recovery evidence. Check mode does not remove infrastructure, but the planning operation may persist its plan records in customer state.

#Apply Premium uninstall

After reviewing that plan:

Terminal
fluffy-chainsaw-premium uninstall

Confirm the deployment name when prompted. Noninteractive use requires --yes. After completion, verify that removed services are unavailable and that retained application/data resources match the report. Review retained resources separately if you intend to remove them later.

Control Room is one of the services governed by the removal plan. It has no remote ejection button. Account/subscription changes remain in Platform. If application code uses the Premium extension, update its code and grants, regenerate, and review its deployment as a separate change.

#Export an accepted Core deployment

For an application already deployed successfully, select a new workspace-relative directory and a credential-free backend URL under your control:

Terminal
fluffy-chainsaw deploy eject \
  --application example-app --environment prod \
  --output infrastructure/example-app-prod \
  --backend gs://your-pulumi-state \
  --check

Review the reported source and digest. Repeat the same command without --check and with --approve sha256:REVIEW_DIGEST, substituting the exact digest it reported. The output directory must be absent or empty.

Ejection rechecks the accepted plan and authoritative checkpoint. It refuses partial, pending, foreign, or changed state. The emitted project preserves resource identities, pinned dependencies, and retention policy; it excludes state, credentials, and the passphrase.

Read the emitted handover instructions before taking over deployment ownership, particularly when moving the state backend. The export itself does not move live state or uninstall the application.

#Reference: verify the handover

CheckWhy it matters
Target application/environmentAvoid exporting a different accepted deployment
Resource identitiesA replacement identity can mean replacement infrastructure
Retention policyUnderstand which resources persist through later changes
Pinned dependenciesKeep the exported implementation reproducible
State/backend handover instructionsSource alone is not enough to adopt existing resources
Retained-resource report after uninstallRemaining resources still need an owner and cost review

A changed checkpoint requires a fresh review and approval digest. Do not reuse a digest from an earlier plan. Credential or identity errors require the correct installation session and ADC. Missing retained resources should be investigated against the plan; generating another export does not recreate them.

CLI reference lists the accepted flags. Database recovery covers data restoration, which is separate from both workflows.