Move VIP From Active Master Without Restarting the PMK Stack

Problem

Move the VIP from one master node to another master node without restarting the PMK stack or without taking the node down.

Environment

  • Platform9 Managed Kubernetes - All Versions

  • Keepalived

Procedure

  1. The VIP can be moved from the current master node where VIP is attached by restarting the keepalived service on that node:

# systemctl restart keepalived.service

  1. Confirm the status of keepalived is in running:

# systemctl status keepalived.service


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