Author: Xing Yang (VMware), Ashutosh Kumar (VMware) Kubernetes v1.24 introduced an alpha quality implementation of improvements for handling a non-graceful node shutdown.In Kubernetes v1.26, this feature moves to beta.This feature allows stateful workloads to failover to a different node after the original node is shut down or in a non-recoverable state, such as the hardware failure or broken OS.

What is a node shutdown in Kubernetes?

In a Kubernetes cluster, it is possible for a node to shut down.This could happen

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