Can we shutdown the Kubernetes clusters without deleting them? [closed]

Question

I am trying to shutdown kubernet clusters. Is there any method to shutdown clusters without deleting it, We want to start the same cluster after some time.

Answer 1

Yes, you can do that. Follow the below steps

1. Shut down kubelet on all the nodes
2. Shut down docker on all the nodes
3. Shut down etcd if you are running etcd externally as a service