remove node checklist

README.md

@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ The aim of this project is to have a quick guide of what to do when an emergency
 * [Create a DO VM for a Service Engineer](howto/create-do-vm-for-service-engineer.md)
 * [Create VMs in Azure, add disks, etc](https://dev.gitlab.org/cookbooks/chef-repo/blob/master/doc/azure.md#managing-vms-in-azure)
 * [Bootstrap a new VM](https://dev.gitlab.org/cookbooks/chef-repo/blob/master/doc/new-vps.md)
+* [Remove existing node checklist](howto/remove-node.md)
 ### Manually ban an IP or netblock

howto/remove-node.md

+## Remove VM
+
+### Checklist for removing VM from the Azure
+
+1. Remove VM
+1. Cleanup all the related resources for the allocated VM (disks, network interfaces, etc)
+1. Delete VM from the chef serve
+
+### Removing the VM from the chef server
+
+1. Execute `knife node delete example.gitlap.com`, where is `example.gitlap.com` is the node name.
+1. Delete corresponding files from the chef-repo. Usually it is `nodes/example.gitlap.com.json` and related roles.