github.com/1aal/kubeblocks@v0.0.0-20231107070852-e1c03e598921/docs/user_docs/kubeblocks-for-kafka/cluster-management/start-stop-a-cluster.md (about) 1 --- 2 title: Stop/Start a Kafka cluster 3 description: How to start/stop a Kafka cluster 4 keywords: [mongodb, stop a kafka cluster, start a kafka cluster] 5 sidebar_position: 5 6 sidebar_label: Stop/Start 7 --- 8 9 # Stop/Start a Kafka Cluster 10 11 You can stop/start a cluster to save computing resources. When a cluster is stopped, the computing resources of this cluster are released, which means the pods of Kubernetes are released, but the storage resources are reserved. Start this cluster again if you want to restore the cluster resources from the original storage by snapshots. 12 13 ## Stop a cluster 14 15 ***Steps:*** 16 17 1. Configure the name of your cluster and run the command below to stop this cluster. 18 19 ```bash 20 kbcli cluster stop kafka 21 ``` 22 23 2. Check the status of the cluster to see whether it is stopped. 24 25 ```bash 26 kbcli cluster list 27 ``` 28 29 ## Start a cluster 30 31 Configure the name of your cluster and run the command below to stop this cluster. 32 33 ```bash 34 kbcli cluster start kafka 35 ```