Remove a node

Precautions

• When you remove a node, the pods that run on the node are migrated to other nodes. This may cause service interruptions. We recommend that you remove nodes during off-peak hours.
• Unknown errors may occur when you remove nodes. Before you remove nodes, back up the data on the nodes.
• Nodes remain in the Unschedulable state when they are being removed.
• You can remove only worker nodes. You cannot remove master nodes.
• We recommend that you remove nodes in the ACK console. If you run the kubectl delete node command to remove nodes from an ACK cluster, take note of the following limits:
  • The removed nodes cannot be added to other ACK clusters.
  • After you delete a cluster, the Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances where the removed nodes are deployed are automatically released.
• If you use the ECS or Auto Scaling console or use the ECS or Auto Scaling API to remove nodes or release instances in a node pool, the node pool automatically scales to the expected number of nodes. A node pool also scales to the expected number of nodes when the subscription instances in the node pool expire and are automatically released. Therefore, if you want to change the number of nodes in a node pool, modify the expected number of nodes or manually remove nodes from the node pool in the ACK console.

Procedure

1. Log on to the ACK console.
2. In the left-side navigation pane of the ACK console, click Clusters.
3. On the Clusters page, find the cluster that you want to manage and click the name of the cluster or click Details in the Actions column. The details page of the cluster appears.
4. In the left-side navigation pane of the details page, choose Nodes > Nodes.
5. On the Nodes page, find the node that you want to remove and choose More > Remove in the Actions column.
   Note To remove multiple nodes at a time, select the nodes that you want to remove on the Nodes page and click Batch Remove.
6. Optional:In the Remove Node dialog box, select Release ECS Instance and Drain the Node.
   • Release ECS Instance:
     • Only pas-as-you-go ECS instances are released. The system continues to bill ECS instances that are not released.
     • Subscription ECS instances are automatically released after the subscription expires.
     • If you do not select Release ECS Instance, you are still charged for the ECS instance where the node is deployed.
   • Drain the Node: Select this option to migrate pods that run on the nodes to be removed to other nodes in the cluster. If you select this option, make sure that the other nodes have sufficient resources for these pods.
     You can also run the kubectl drain node-name [options] command to migrate pods that run on the nodes to be removed to other nodes in the cluster.

     Note

     • node-name must be in the format of your-region-name.node-id.

       your-region-name specifies the region where the cluster that you want to manage is deployed. node-id specifies the ID of the ECS instance where the node to be removed is deployed. Example: cn-hangzhou.i-xxx.

     • options specifies the optional parameters of the command. Example: --force --ignore-daemonsets --delete-local-data. You can run the kubectl drain --help command to view help information.
7. Click OK.
   Note If a message that indicates a node removal failure appears, clear Release ECS Instance and Drain the Node, and then remove the nodes again.