But if your health checks are incomplete, a Pod can be misbehaving but still be part of the replicated set. In these situations, while it would work to simply kill the Pod, that would leave your developers with only logs to debug the problem. Instead, you can modify the set of labels on the sick Pod. Doing so will disassociate it from the ReplicaSet (and service) so that you can debug the Pod. The ReplicaSet controller will notice that a Pod is missing and create a new copy, but because the Pod is still running it is available to developers for interactive debugging, which is significantly
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