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 Finally, Karpenter consolidation will not attempt to consolidate a node that is running pods that are not owned by a controller (e.g. a ReplicaSet). In general we cannot assume that these pods would be recreated if they were evicted from the node that they are currently running on.
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+#### 7) Scale the replicas to 0.
+
+In preparation for the next section, scale replicas to 0 using the following command.
+
+```
+kubectl scale deployment inflate --replicas 0
+```
+
 
 ## What Have we learned in this section: