Removing an unresponsive IBM Cloud Private cluster node

Remove an unresponsive node from your IBM® Cloud Private cluster.

1. Set up kubectl CLI. See Accessing your cluster from the kubectl CLI.

2. Get a list of your cluster nodes.

   kubectl get nodes
   

   Following is a sample output:

   NAME             STATUS    ROLES                          AGE       VERSION
   172.16.151.126   Ready     etcd,management,master,proxy   39d       v1.11.1+icp-ee
   172.16.151.182   NotReady  worker                         39d       v1.11.1+icp-ee             <<<<<<< unresponsive node
   172.16.155.135   Ready     worker                         39d       v1.11.1+icp-ee
   

3. Delete the unresponsive node from your cluster.

   kubectl delete node <node-IP-address>
   

   Following is a sample command and output:

   kubectl delete node 172.16.151.182
   node "172.16.151.182" deleted
   

4. Remove the IP address of the unresponsive node from the <installation_directory>/cluster/hosts file.