K8s – Drain a Node

Check Nodes

kubectl get nodes
➜  ~ kubectl get nodes                                              
NAME      STATUS   ROLES                  AGE    VERSION
master1   Ready    control-plane,master   517d   v1.21.5
master2   Ready    control-plane,master   517d   v1.21.5
master3   Ready    control-plane,master   517d   v1.21.5
worker1   Ready    worker                 517d   v1.21.5
worker2   Ready    worker                 517d   v1.21.5
worker3   Ready    worker                 517d   v1.21.5

Cordon the node

kubectl cordon [NODENAME]

Drain the node

kubectl drain [NODENAME] --ignore-daemonsets --force --delete-local-data

Uncordon the node

kubectl uncordon [NODENAME]