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Maintenance mode

Use maintenance as a safety control before upgrades or disruptive host changes.

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Maintenance mode

Live

Use maintenance as a safety control before upgrades or disruptive host changes.

Goal

Keep nodes out of the scheduler when you are about to perform risky host-level work.

Current status

Live

This area is documented as current, user-reliable behavior.

Workflow

  1. 1Enter maintenance before upgrades or host maintenance.
  2. 2Keep the node in maintenance until health and heartbeat are clean again.
  3. 3Exit maintenance only when you want the node schedulable again.

Expected result

Node lifecycle work happens with fewer accidental scheduling side effects.