You can actually run the kubelet in standalone mode without etcd, controller-manager, scheduler or api-server. Simply drop any static pods manifests into /etc/k

You can actually run the kubelet in standalone mode without etcd, controller-manager, scheduler or api-server. Simply drop any static pods manifests into /etc/kubernetes/manifests and the kubelet will launch pods for you. Remove them and kubelet will too. Fun fact this is how kubeadm bootstraps a control plane from "scratch"