title: How to gracefully drain a node in EKS?
body: <p>Sometimes we need to drain nodes in Kubernetes. When I manually set up a k8s cluster, I can drain the specific node then terminate that machine. While in EKS, nodes are under auto scaling group, which means I can't terminate a specific instance(node). If I manually terminate a instance, another instance(node) will be automatically added into eks cluster.</p>
  
  <p>So is there any suggested method to drain a node in EKS?</p>