---
title: GracefulNodeShutdown
content_type: feature_gate
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  - stage: alpha
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---
Enables support for graceful shutdown in kubelet.
During a system shutdown, kubelet will attempt to detect the shutdown event
and gracefully terminate pods running on the node. See
[Graceful Node Shutdown](/docs/concepts/architecture/nodes/#graceful-node-shutdown)
for more details.