kubectl drain

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Drain a node in preparation for maintenance by marking it unschedulable and evicting all pods. See also: `kubectl cordon`, `kubectl uncordon`.

Examples (8)

Drain a node

kubectl drain node_name

Drain a node, ignoring DaemonSet-managed pods

kubectl drain node_name --ignore-daemonsets

Drain a node and delete pods using emptyDir volumes (local data will be lost)

kubectl drain node_name --ignore-daemonsets --delete-emptydir-data

Drain a node, forcing eviction of pods not managed by a controller

kubectl drain node_name --force

Drain a node with a custom grace period for pod termination

kubectl drain node_name --grace-period seconds

Drain a node, evicting only pods that match a label selector

kubectl drain node_name --pod-selector label_key=label_value

Drain a node with a timeout

kubectl drain node_name --timeout duration

Preview the drain operation without actually evicting pods (dry run)

kubectl drain node_name --dry-run=none|server|client