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Drain / delete nodes error: unable to drain node

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