<p>How to safely delete node from the cluster?</p>
<p>Firstly, I have drained and deleted the node.
However, after few seconds kube created again. I believe its because of the cluster service, where number of replicas are defined.
Should i update my cluster service and delete ?
Or is there any other way to safely delete ?</p>

gippo
<p><strong>To delete a node and stop recreating another one automatically follow the below steps:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li><p>First drain the node</p>
<p><code>kubectl drain &lt;node-name&gt;</code></p>
</li>
<li><p>Edit instance group for nodes (using kops)</p>
<p><code>kops edit ig nodes</code></p>
</li>
<li><p>Finally delete the node</p>
<p><code>kubectl delete node &lt;node-name&gt;</code></p>
</li>
<li><p>Update the cluster (using kops)</p>
<p><code>kops update cluster --yes</code></p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>Note: If you are using a pod autoscaler then disable or edit the replica count before deleting the node.</p>
