<p>Can a Kubernetes pod that is connected to a service make itself look unavailable temporarily to the service so that no traffic is scheduled on that pod? And make itself available again?</p>

underhood31
<p>I think what you are looking for is a <code>readiness</code> probe. When a pod is not <code>ready</code>, it gets no requests. So you could define a readiness probe, and make it fails. <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-liveness-readiness-startup-probes/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">More</a>.</p>
