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Kubernetes node maintenance

The work of draining, upgrading, replacing and consolidating Kubernetes nodes without dropping the workloads running on them.

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The eviction API is the only path a PodDisruptionBudget can block

Gremlin's walkthrough stalls a node drain after evicting one of four nginx replicas. The same budget leaves the Deployment controller and the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler free to delete pods directly, because they never call eviction.

Publishers:gremlin.com

Reality

Evidence55
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Insufficient
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