How to start and stop a cluster on AWS using kops without stopping the instance

Question

I've created a Kube cluster with one master and three nodes, so in total 4 instances running. I want to stop the container and start again tomorrow. is there a way to do that?

Answer 1

Export your KOPS_STAT_STORE variable

export KOPS_STATE_STORE=s3://your-bucket-name

Get your instances group

kops get ig

edit your master and slave nodes

kops edit ig <master-name>

Change maxsize and minsize to 0

minsize: 0
maxSize: 0

Update your cluster

kops update cluster --yes

Rolling changes to stop the cluster

kops rolling-update cluster --yes

Rolling changes to start the cluster

kops rolling-update cluster --cloudonly --force --yea