Save cost on a development cluster. Stop your control plane and agent nodes altogether, allowing you to save on all the compute costs, while maintaining all your objects and cluster state stored for when you start it again.
Stop the Cluster
az aks stop --name zcAKSCluster --resource-group zcResourceGroup
Start the Cluster
az aks start --name zcAKSCluster --resource-group zcResourceGroup
Validate the state
az aks show --name zcAKSCluster --resource-group zcResourceGroup
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