--- title: "node demote" description: "The node demote command description and usage" keywords: ["node, demote"] --- <!-- This file is maintained within the docker/docker Github repository at https://github.com/docker/docker/. Make all pull requests against that repo. If you see this file in another repository, consider it read-only there, as it will periodically be overwritten by the definitive file. Pull requests which include edits to this file in other repositories will be rejected. --> # node demote ```markdown Usage: docker node demote NODE [NODE...] Demote one or more nodes from manager in the swarm Options: --help Print usage ``` Demotes an existing manager so that it is no longer a manager. This command targets a docker engine that is a manager in the swarm. ```bash $ docker node demote <node name> ``` ## Related information * [node promote](node_promote.md)