Start & Stop AKS Cluster

How to Start and Stop the AKS Cluster

Start & Stop:

1. Navigate to your AKS service in the Azure portal .
   You can find the aks service in the resource group: rg-<environment>-<short company name>-<workload name>-aks e.g. ‘rg-prod-tls-cmaas-aks’.
2. On the overview page, click on start/stop in the action menu on the top of the page.
   It takes at least 5 minutes to start or stop an aks cluster.

Reduce node count to zero:
Unlike System node pools that always require running nodes, User node pools allow you to scale to 0

1. Navigate to your AKS service in the Azure portal .
   You can find the aks service in the resource group: rg-<environment>-<short company name>-<workload name>-aks e.g. ‘rg-prod-tls-cmaas-aks’.
2. In the navigation panel on the left, click on node pools.
3. Select the user node pool you want to scale
4. Click on Scale Node Pool
5. Select Manual and set the Node Count to 0