website/content/en/docs/reference/command-line-tools-reference/feature-gates/graceful-node-shutdown.md

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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 for more details.