Chapter 3. Manually scaling a machine set

Procedure

1. View the machine sets that are in the cluster:

   $ oc get machinesets -n openshift-machine-api

   The machine sets are listed in the form of <clusterid>-worker-<aws-region-az>.

2. View the machines that are in the cluster:

   $ oc get machine -n openshift-machine-api

3. Set the annotation on the machine that you want to delete:

   $ oc annotate machine/<machine_name> -n openshift-machine-api machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-delete-machine="true"

4. Scale the compute machine set by running one of the following commands:

   $ oc scale --replicas=2 machineset <machineset> -n openshift-machine-api

   Or:

   $ oc edit machineset <machineset> -n openshift-machine-api

   Tip

   You can alternatively apply the following YAML to scale the machine set:

   apiVersion: machine.openshift.io/v1beta1
   kind: MachineSet
   metadata:
     name: <machineset>
     namespace: openshift-machine-api
   spec:
     replicas: 2

   You can scale the compute machine set up or down. It takes several minutes for the new machines to be available.

   Important

   By default, the machine controller tries to drain the node that is backed by the machine until it succeeds. In some situations, such as with a misconfigured pod disruption budget, the drain operation might not be able to succeed. If the drain operation fails, the machine controller cannot proceed removing the machine.

   You can skip draining the node by annotating machine.openshift.io/exclude-node-draining in a specific machine.