# How to specify which node to delete when downscaling?

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/how-to-specify-which-node-to-delete-when-downscaling/12623>\
**Category:** SUSE Rancher Prime\
**Created:** [December 5, 2018, 10:25pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/how-to-specify-which-node-to-delete-when-downscaling/12623 "2018-12-05T22:25:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![thatcher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/thatcher/32/4690_2.png) [@thatcher](https://forums.suse.com/u/thatcher)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 10:25pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/how-to-specify-which-node-to-delete-when-downscaling/12623/1 "2018-12-05T22:25:36Z")

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Situation: I have a cluster (on AWS) managed by Rancher (so not EKS), the setup works all good, and I can add and remove nodes by clicking plus or minus.

Problem… I would like to decide WHICH node is being removed when I click minus, but don’t seem able to. I’ve tried cordoning and draining a node, but which node is removed still appears random.

In my specific situation it appears one node failed to upgrade to the K8S 1.11, and I had added another. How do I now remove that 1.10 node?

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**Author:** ![Matthew\_Ingle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/matthew_ingle/32/5013_2.png) [@Matthew\_Ingle](https://forums.suse.com/u/Matthew_Ingle)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 7:35pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/how-to-specify-which-node-to-delete-when-downscaling/12623/2 "2019-04-05T19:35:16Z")

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I would also be interested in this functionality. This would be very useful for implementing with the cluster autoscaler ([https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/cluster-autoscaler](https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/cluster-autoscaler)). Currently since a node is deleted at random on scaledown we cannot control which node is deleted by the cluster-autoscaler.

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**Author:** ![Taylor\_Medford](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/taylor_medford/32/5026_2.png) [@Taylor\_Medford](https://forums.suse.com/u/Taylor_Medford)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2019, 7:46pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/how-to-specify-which-node-to-delete-when-downscaling/12623/3 "2019-04-06T19:46:21Z")

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We really could use this.