Motivation

Draining a node may be necessary for, e.g., maintenance of a node. If that happens, Kubernetes should be able to reschedule the pods running on that node within the expected time and without user-noticeable failures.

Structure

For the entire duration of the experiment, a user-facing endpoint should work within expected success rates. At the beginning of the experiment, all pods should be ready to accept traffic. As soon as the node is drained, Kubernetes will evict the pods, but we still expect the pod's redundancy to be able to serve the user-facing endpoint. Eventually, after 120 seconds, all pods should be rescheduled and ready again to recover after the maintenance.