How to delete nodes from the cluster with lima

A compact overview of how you can delete nodes from your cluster with Lima.

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Note: If we want to delete a node from our kubernetes cluster we have to use lima.

If you are using our platform, lima is already installed by it. If this is not the case, please install lima manually.

These are the prerequisites that have to fulfilled before we can delete a node from our cluster.

lima has to be installed
a functioning cluster must exist

If you want to remove a node from your cluster you can run the delete command on the admin node.

lima delete -n <node which should be deleted> <name of your cluster>

Note: The example cluster name has to be the same like the one set in the Kubectl.yaml file. Under clusterName:

For example we want to delete worker node 2 from our existing kubernetes cluster named example and the IP-address 10.2.1.9 with the following command:

lima delete -n 10.2.1.9 example