Remove Overlay Content

You may wish to remove some content from an overlay you reference. The technique below shows how to remove a number of items using a label. This approach scales more easily than removing specific objects, but needs more care to ensure it does not remove too much.

Example Customization

1. Go to your ESS installation directory:

   cd ${HOME}/ess

2. Modify the kustomization.yaml (i.e., step 3 of the Applying Your Customizations procedure). Specifically, add the highlighted content to the kustomization.yaml file under the patches key:\

   {% hint style="info" %} Tip

   If patches key does not exist in kustomization.yaml , add the key patches as well. {% endhint %}

   
   # kustomization.yaml in your ESS installation directory
   # ...  Preceding content omitted for brevity 
   # ...
   patches:
     - target:
         labelSelector: role=logging
       patch: |-
         $patch: delete
         kind: not-important
         metadata:
           name: not-important
   ```3. Continue with the rest of the [Applying Your Customizations](../../customize-configurations/) procedure.