Deleting Nodes from Cluster

Guide to delete nodes from existing Kubernetes cluster

The steps to delete nodes from Kubernetes cluster are:

• Before you delete the node, make sure the PodDisruptionBudget is set to "0" on deleting node. Click here for more information.

• To drain the node from the cluster, run the command below.

  kubectl drain <nodename> --ignore-daemonsets --delete-emptydir-data

• Once done draining the node, run the command below to delete it from the cluster.

  kubectl delete node <nodename>

• After deleting the node, check your Kubernetes cluster to ensure the node has been deleted.

• Make sure the node IP is removed from the LoadBalancer/NGINX to avoid intermittent issues in the environment.

After removing a node from the cluster, ensure that the node IP is removed from the Nginx configuration.