kubereboot/kured

Kubernetes Reboot Daemon

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kured - Kubernetes Reboot Daemon

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Introduction

Kured (KUbernetes REboot Daemon) is a Kubernetes daemonset that performs safe automatic node reboots when the need to do so is indicated by the package management system of the underlying OS.

  • Watches for the presence of a reboot sentinel file e.g. /var/run/reboot-required or the successful run of a sentinel command.
  • Utilises a lock in the API server to ensure only one node reboots at a time
  • Optionally defers reboots in the presence of active Prometheus alerts or selected pods
  • Cordons & drains worker nodes before reboot, uncordoning them after

Documentation

Find all our docs on https://kured.dev:

And there's much more!

Getting Help

If you have any questions about, feedback for or problems with kured:

We follow the CNCF Code of Conduct.

Your feedback is always welcome!

Trademarks

Kured is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation Sandbox project.

Cloud Native Computing Foundation logo

The Linux Foundation® (TLF) has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of TLF trademarks, see Trademark Usage.

License

FOSSA Status

kubernetes
kured
reboot

kubereboot/kured

Kubernetes Reboot Daemon

Go

2,578

1,257 commits

updated Oct 7, 2026

See the code

README

kured - Kubernetes Reboot Daemon

Artifact HUB FOSSA Status CLOMonitor OpenSSF Best Practices

kured logo

Introduction

Kured (KUbernetes REboot Daemon) is a Kubernetes daemonset that performs safe automatic node reboots when the need to do so is indicated by the package management system of the underlying OS.

  • Watches for the presence of a reboot sentinel file e.g. /var/run/reboot-required or the successful run of a sentinel command.
  • Utilises a lock in the API server to ensure only one node reboots at a time
  • Optionally defers reboots in the presence of active Prometheus alerts or selected pods
  • Cordons & drains worker nodes before reboot, uncordoning them after

Documentation

Find all our docs on https://kured.dev:

And there's much more!

Getting Help

If you have any questions about, feedback for or problems with kured:

We follow the CNCF Code of Conduct.

Your feedback is always welcome!

Trademarks

Kured is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation Sandbox project.

Cloud Native Computing Foundation logo

The Linux Foundation® (TLF) has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of TLF trademarks, see Trademark Usage.

License

FOSSA Status

kubernetes
kured
reboot

Project health

Overall

7.1/10

Maintained

10/10

Code review

7/10

Contributors

10/10
OpenSSF Scorecard

Latest release

v1.13.1 · Jun 7, 2023

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