How to drain node in Kubernetes cluster for maintenance activity. | Linux Today

How to drain node in Kubernetes cluster for maintenance activity.

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Manmohan Mikrar
Dec 5, 2020

In this article we will discuss about, how to drain node in Kubernetes cluster. For maintenance activity such as patching etc. requires downtime. In order to carry out such activities without impacting applications running within cluster, we need to follow some step by step command. We will discuss those commands in this article for impact less maintenance.

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Manmohan Mikrar

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