<p>Is it possible to take a pod out of rotation to debug some issue? or ability to create a pod from same replication controller without letting it serve live traffic</p>

<p>I find the best solution is to take a Pod that was created by the controller and change the labels on it in a way that it is excluded from the Service(s). The controller will spawn another Pod to replace the now missing one.</p>

<pre><code>kubectl label pod mypod app- myotherlabel- debug=true
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