title: Scale down Kubernetes pods
body: <p>I am using </p>
  
  <p><code>kubectl scale --replicas=0 -f deployment.yaml</code> </p>
  
  <p>to stop all my running pods. Please let me know if there are better ways to bring down all running pods to Zero keeping configuration, deployments etc.. intact, so that I can scale up later as required.</p>