Managed Clusters - Stop

Service:

AKS

API Version:

2024-09-01

Stops a Managed Cluster
This can only be performed on Azure Virtual Machine Scale set backed clusters. Stopping a cluster stops the control plane and agent nodes entirely, while maintaining all object and cluster state. A cluster does not accrue charges while it is stopped. See stopping a cluster for more details about stopping a cluster.

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ContainerService/managedClusters/{resourceName}/stop?api-version=2024-09-01

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
resourceGroupName	path	True	string	The name of the resource group. The name is case insensitive.
resourceName	path	True	string	The name of the managed cluster resource. Regex pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9]$|^[a-zA-Z0-9][-_a-zA-Z0-9]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9]$
subscriptionId	path	True	string uuid	The ID of the target subscription. The value must be an UUID.
api-version	query	True	string	The API version to use for this operation.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
202 Accepted		Accepted Headers Location: string
204 No Content		NoContent
Other Status Codes	CloudError	Error response describing why the operation failed. If the cluster doesn't exist, 404 (Not found) is returned.

Security

azure_auth

Azure Active Directory OAuth2 Flow

Type: oauth2
Flow: implicit
Authorization URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize

Scopes

Name	Description
user_impersonation	impersonate your user account

Examples

Stop Managed Cluster

Sample request

HTTP

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/resourceGroups/rg1/providers/Microsoft.ContainerService/managedClusters/clustername1/stop?api-version=2024-09-01

Python

from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential

from azure.mgmt.containerservice import ContainerServiceClient

"""
# PREREQUISITES
    pip install azure-identity
    pip install azure-mgmt-containerservice
# USAGE
    python managed_clusters_stop.py

    Before run the sample, please set the values of the client ID, tenant ID and client secret
    of the AAD application as environment variables: AZURE_CLIENT_ID, AZURE_TENANT_ID,
    AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET. For more info about how to get the value, please see:
    https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/active-directory/develop/howto-create-service-principal-portal
"""


def main():
    client = ContainerServiceClient(
        credential=DefaultAzureCredential(),
        subscription_id="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    )

    client.managed_clusters.begin_stop(
        resource_group_name="rg1",
        resource_name="clustername1",
    ).result()


# x-ms-original-file: specification/containerservice/resource-manager/Microsoft.ContainerService/aks/stable/2024-09-01/examples/ManagedClustersStop.json
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

To use the Azure SDK library in your project, see this documentation. To provide feedback on this code sample, open a GitHub issue

Sample response

Status code:

202

location: https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/providers/Microsoft.ContainerService/locations/eastus/operationresults/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000?api-version=2017-08-31

Status code:

204

Definitions

Name	Description
CloudError	An error response from the Container service.
CloudErrorBody	An error response from the Container service.

CloudError

An error response from the Container service.

Name	Type	Description
error	CloudErrorBody	Details about the error.

CloudErrorBody

An error response from the Container service.

Name	Type	Description
code	string	An identifier for the error. Codes are invariant and are intended to be consumed programmatically.
details	CloudErrorBody[]	A list of additional details about the error.
message	string	A message describing the error, intended to be suitable for display in a user interface.
target	string	The target of the particular error. For example, the name of the property in error.