A DaemonSet is supposed to run on all or some Kubernetes nodes, so scaling it down is surprisingly easy: Set a nodeSelector to some label which doesn’t exist, and the DaemonSet is scaled to 0.
kubectl patch daemonset the-ds -p '{"spec": {"template": {"spec": {"nodeSelector": {"doesnt-exist": "true"}}}}}'This will patch (-p) the DaemonSet and add a nodeSelector ( spec.template.spec.nodeSelector) which makes the DaemonSet run on all nodes which are labeled “doesnt-exist: true“.
Since there are no nodes with this label, the DaemonSet is scaled to 0.
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