Stopping a pod on kubernetes

It is not possible to stop a kubernetes pod but you can delete it from the kubernetes instance or pause it by setting replicas to 0.

You can control kubernetes and your running pods from the Kubernetes Dashboard available through the IBM Cloud website.

To list your pods type:

kubectl top pod

To get information on your pod type:

kubectl describe pod

To delete your pod type:

kubectl delete -n default pod <pod-name e.g. nodehelloworld-deployment-59b5cdf8c8-p5fsm>

To pause a pod you can set its replicas to 0:

kubectl scale –replicas=0 <pod-name>