<p>HI I know there's a way i can pull out a problematic node out of loadbalancer to troubleshoot. But how can i pull a pod out of service to troubleshoot. What tools or command can do it ?</p>

<p>Change its labels so they no longer matches the <code>selector:</code> in the <code>Service</code>; we used to do that all the time. You can even put it back into rotation if you want to test a hypothesis. I don't recall exactly how quickly it takes effect, but I would guess "real quick" is a good approximation. :-)</p>

<pre class="lang-shell prettyprint-override"><code>## for example:
$ kubectl label pod $the_pod -app.kubernetes.io/name
## or, change it to non-matching
$ kubectl label pod $the_pod app.kubernetes.io/name=i-am-debugging-this-pod
</code></pre>
