# Completely scaling down an ECK-based cluster
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/completely-scaling-down-an-eck-based-cluster/278074
**Category:** Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)
**Created:** [July 7, 2021, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/completely-scaling-down-an-eck-based-cluster/278074 "2021-07-07T13:26:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@pkaramol](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pkaramol)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2021, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/completely-scaling-down-an-eck-based-cluster/278074/1 "2021-07-07T13:26:56Z")
I want to completely scale down (i.e zero out all nodes) of an ECK-based cluster.
I have tried to set `nodeSet.count` to `0` but this fails with
```auto
spec.nodeSets: Required value: Elasticsearch needs to have at least one master node"
```
I am using a setup with a `nodeSet` having nodes will all roles (`data`, `master`, `ingest` and `ml`)
Any suggestions?
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### Author:  [@sebgl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sebgl)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2021, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/completely-scaling-down-an-eck-based-cluster/278074/2 "2021-07-07T14:24:16Z")
Do you want to basically remove that cluster altogether?
In which case you can simply `kubectl delete elasticsearch `.
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### Author:  [@pkaramol](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pkaramol)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/completely-scaling-down-an-eck-based-cluster/278074/3 "2021-07-07T14:31:11Z")
So I assume there is no way of zeroing out all nodes by somehow "keeping the cluster state"? Something in the likes of setting a deployment's replicas to 0?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/completely-scaling-down-an-eck-based-cluster/278074/4 "2021-08-04T14:31:52Z")
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