kurtosis-tech Clean
Remove Kurtosis enclaves and leftover artifacts.
Basic clean
Removes only stopped enclaves and stopped engine containers:
kurtosis clean
Clean everything
Removes all enclaves (including running ones):
kurtosis clean -a
Selective removal
To remove a specific enclave without touching others:
# Stop an enclave
kurtosis enclave stop <enclave-name>
# Remove a specific enclave
kurtosis enclave rm <enclave-name>
When clean hangs
On Kubernetes, kurtosis clean -a can hang if the logs collector cleanup tries to create pods on tainted/unhealthy nodes. See the k8s-clean-cluster skill for manual cleanup steps.
On Docker, if clean hangs:
# Kill the hanging process
pkill -f "kurtosis clean"
# Manually remove containers
docker ps -a | grep kurtosis | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -r docker rm -f
# Remove networks
docker network ls | grep kurtosis | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -r docker network rm
# Restart engine
kurtosis engine start