Kubernetes: How to evict a Pod from a node

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When we don't have the Pod's resources correctly configured we might face the need of moving a Pod to a different node. Although we could change the nodeSelector or adjust the resources to that it gets scheduled on a different node, it might urge us to fix an issue. To do so we can use kubectl drain

At the end of the day what we want it really is "drain the node of that kind of Pods". As kind of by product the node ends up being cordoned so we are sure the Pod won't be scheduled again on the same node.

25/10/2021

Creating a fake kubeconfig using kubectl

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If we allow a pod to interact with the cluster's API, as long as we have kubectl installed on the container, we don't really need to worry about the kubeconfig file. Although some applications might complain is they don't find it, so we might need to create a fake kubeconfig just to make them happy

20/10/2021