Uninstalling Craft Nitro

If you decide that Nitro isn’t for you or you need to trou­bleshoot an issue by unin­stalling Nitro, then this is how to do it. You should know that unin­stalling Nitro and destroy­ing the Dock­er images, will also delete any data­bas­es you have. Your files, how­ev­er, will remain intact, as they’re part of your computer’s file sys­tem, not stored in a Dock­er container.

Before you nuke the Nitro app itself, first destroy the Dock­er con­tain­ers. You can do this via Dock­er Desk­top by click­ing the trash can icon next to each Dock­er con­tain­er cre­at­ed by Nitro. This will spin down the con­tain­er and then destroy it. 

Or, as a faster method, you can use nitro destroy com­mand, which will destroy all con­tain­ers, net­works, and vol­umes cre­at­ed and man­aged by Nitro. It will not destroy oth­er con­tain­ers, etc. that are in Dock­er Desktop.

Just don’t for­get that when you destroy a data­base con­tain­er, that you’re also destroy­ing the data­base data, too!

After destroy­ing the con­tain­ers, you can If you installed Nitro via Home­brew then you’ll run:

 brew uninstall nitro

If you installed Nitro via the bash com­mand, then it’s a mat­ter of remov­ing the nitro direc­to­ry in your /usr/local/bin directory:

sudo rm -R /usr/local/bin/nitro