operator step-down

The operator step-down forces the active OpenBao node within an HA cluster to step down from active duty. When executed against a standby node, the request will be forwarded to the active node. While the affected node will have a delay before attempting to acquire the leader lock again, if no other OpenBao nodes acquire the lock beforehand, it is possible for the same node to re-acquire the lock and become active again.

Examples

Force an OpenBao server to step down as the leader:

$ bao operator step-down
Success! Stepped down: http://127.0.0.1:8200

Usage

There are no flags beyond the standard set of flags included on all commands.