How should we handle remove plugins?

[oldthreefeng]

Where is the problem?

no

What happened?

How should we handle deprecated plugins?

rollout restart kong error . handling-overload is never use in my kong cluster. so i want to remove this plugins .

 error building initial plugins: handling-overload plugin is in use but not enabled. 

please help, thanks

What did you expect to happen?

rollout restart kong ok

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[oldthreefeng]

Remove a plugin

There are three steps to completely remove a plugin.

Remove the plugin from your Kong Service or Route configuration. Make sure that it is no longer applied globally nor for any Service, Route, or consumer. This has to be done only once for the entire Kong cluster, no restart/reload required. This step in itself will make that the plugin is no longer in use. But it remains available and it is still possible to re-apply the plugin.

Remove the plugin from the plugins directive (on each Kong node). Make sure to have completed step 1 before doing so. After this step it will be impossible for anyone to re-apply the plugin to any Kong Service, Route, Consumer, or even globally. This step requires to restart/reload the Kong node to take effect.

To remove the plugin thoroughly, delete the plugin-related files from each of the Kong nodes. Make sure to have completed step 2, including restarting/reloading Kong, before deleting the files. If you used LuaRocks to install the plugin, you can do luarocks remove to remove it.