Safely Drain a Cluster
Just like you can safely drain a node with Kubernetes, you can safely drain a cluster with Admiralty. The operation even respects PodDisruptionBudgets. This is possible because target clusters are represented by virtual nodes in source clusters. This feature is particularly useful in a central control plane topology to perform blue/green cluster upgrades.
Given a cluster connection between a source cluster and a target named c2 in the default namespace, there should be a virtual node named admiralty-default-c2 in the source cluster. To evict all proxy pods running on that node, hence delete all corresponding delegate pods in that target cluster, run:
Note that delegate pods in that target cluster owned by other source clusters, if any, are not affected.
kubectl drain also cordons the virtual node, so that it becomes unschedulable (by the way, kubectl cordon works too!). If the evicted proxy pods are owned by other objects, e.g., ReplicaSets, they are replaced by new ones that are scheduled to available virtual nodes.
If you bring the target cluster back online, you need to run
in the source cluster afterward to tell the Admiralty proxy scheduler that it can resume scheduling new proxy pods onto the virtual node.