How to Delete Pods from a Kubernetes Node
…and avoid downtime!
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6 min readNov 10, 2022
In this article, we will run through how to delete a pod from a Kubernetes (K8S) node with examples using a cluster running on AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service). Deleting a pod from a node is commonly required to manually scale down your cluster, for troubleshooting purposes when pods need to be removed from a particular node or to clear pods off a node completely when it needs maintenance.
