whew, "alternative" is doing a lot of work there.

Contrast:

  ansible -i server1,server2,server3 deploy_fake_pods.yaml
  ssh server1 sudo shutdown -h now
  # aww, too bad, now your pods on server1 are no longer

  kubectl apply -f deployment.yaml
  for i in $(kubectl get nodes -o jsonpath='{.status.hostIP}'); do
    ssh $i sudo shutdown -h now
    sleep 120
  done
  # nothing has changed except you have fresh Nodes