# Stop cluster from Rancher

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/stop-cluster-from-rancher/17291>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [April 28, 2020, 8:16am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/stop-cluster-from-rancher/17291 "2020-04-28T08:16:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![shri\_sarnobat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@shri\_sarnobat](https://forums.suse.com/u/shri_sarnobat)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 8:16am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/stop-cluster-from-rancher/17291/1 "2020-04-28T08:16:45Z")

</div>

Hello,

I am new to Rancher. I have provisioned AWS cluster with one node through Rancher. How can I stop it without deleting the same?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![JasonvanBrackel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/jasonvanbrackel/32/4558_2.png) [@JasonvanBrackel](https://forums.suse.com/u/JasonvanBrackel)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 1:07pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/stop-cluster-from-rancher/17291/2 "2020-04-28T13:07:58Z")

</div>

To my knowledge there’s no method to “stop” an EKS cluster or a Kubernetes cluster. The best you could probably do it scale the worker node count to 0. You would lose your running applications, but not the cluster.

```
eksctl get cluster
eksctl get nodegroup --cluster CLUSTERNAME
eksctl scale nodegroup --cluster CLUSTERNAME --name NODEGROUPNAME --nodes NEWSIZE
```