How to Delete Node Pools from a Vultr Kubernetes Engine Cluster

1 min readUpdated 4 November 2026

Remove a single node or a whole node pool from a Vultr Kubernetes Engine cluster to scale down and cut costs.

Deleting a node pool from a Vultr Kubernetes Engine (VKE) cluster permanently removes the pool and all of its worker nodes, and stops further charges for those nodes. You can also delete a single node from a node pool to remove an instance you no longer need. Kubernetes reschedules workloads from the deleted nodes onto the remaining nodes in the cluster, so make sure the remaining nodes have enough capacity before you delete a node or node pool.

Follow this guide to delete a node or a node pool from a Vultr Kubernetes Engine cluster using the Vultr Console, API, CLI, or Terraform.

Navigate to Compute and click Kubernetes.
Click the target cluster to open its management page.
Click the Nodes tab.
Delete a single node or the whole node pool:
- To delete a single node, click + next to the node pool name to view its nodes, then click the Destroy Node icon in the row of the target node and confirm the deletion.
- To delete the whole node pool, click the Destroy Node Pool icon in the row of the target node pool. In the Destroy Node Pool? dialog, verify that the Node Pool field shows the correct node pool name, then select Yes, destroy this node pool. and click Destroy Node Pool.

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