Drain / delete nodes error: unable to drain node
Quote from moshe on 16/02/2023, 8:01 amProblem
User tries to delete node and gets the following error
error: unable to drain node “worker01” due to error:cannot delete DaemonSet-managed Pods (use –ignore-daemonsets to ignore): kube-system/kube-proxy-sxb8f, kube-system/weave-net-pnq4l, continuing command…
Solution
Run the following command to ignore daemonsets and data
kubectl drain worker01 –delete-local-data –ignore-daemonsets
kubectl delete node worker01
Problem
User tries to delete node and gets the following error
error: unable to drain node “worker01” due to error:cannot delete DaemonSet-managed Pods (use –ignore-daemonsets to ignore): kube-system/kube-proxy-sxb8f, kube-system/weave-net-pnq4l, continuing command…
Solution
Run the following command to ignore daemonsets and data
kubectl drain worker01 –delete-local-data –ignore-daemonsets
kubectl delete node worker01