Manage Worker Nodes

• To mark a node as unschedulable:

  kubectl cordon <node-name>

  kubectl uncordon <node-name> To get the node back

• To mark a node as unschedulable and remove all running pods from it

  kubectl drain <node-name>

  • Pods that have started from a DaemonSet will not be removed while using kubctl drian , add --ignore-daemonsets to ignore that

  • Add --delete-empty-dir to delete fata from emptyDir Pod volumes