Starting and Stopping ESS Services Stopping a component To stop a component, such as Synapse , it is necessary to stop the operator : kubectl scale deploy/element-operator-controller-manager -n operator-onprem --replicas 0 Once the operator is stopped, you can delete the Synapse resource to remove all Synapse workloads : kubectl delete synapse/first-element-deployment -n element-onprem To get a list of resources that you can remove, you can look at the following command : kubectl get elementdeployment/first-element-deployment -n element-onprem --template='{{range $key, $value := .status.dependentCRs}}{{$key}}{{"\n"}}{{end}}' Example : ElementWeb/first-element-deployment Hookshot/first-element-deployment Integrator/first-element-deployment MatrixAuthenticationService/first-element-deployment Synapse/first-element-deployment SynapseAdminUI/first-element-deployment SynapseUser/first-element-deployment-adminuser-donotdelete SynapseUser/first-element-deployment-telemetry-donotdelete WellKnownDelegation/first-element-deployment Starting a component To stop a component, such as Synapse , it is necessary to start the operator : kubectl scale deploy/element-operator-controller-manager -n operator-onprem --replicas 1 Because the Synapse resource will automatically have been recreated by the updater , the operator on startup will automatically detect it and recreate all synapse workloads.