before 1.33 flags were on main, cherry-pick has to be modified to accomodate this change

Author: MaximilianoUribe

cluster-autoscaler/main.go

@@ -281,6 +281,7 @@ var (
 	checkCapacityProvisioningRequestMaxBatchSize = flag.Int("check-capacity-provisioning-request-max-batch-size", 10, "Maximum number of provisioning requests to process in a single batch.")
 	checkCapacityProvisioningRequestBatchTimebox = flag.Duration("check-capacity-provisioning-request-batch-timebox", 10*time.Second, "Maximum time to process a batch of provisioning requests.")
 	forceDeleteLongUnregisteredNodes             = flag.Bool("force-delete-unregistered-nodes", false, "Whether to enable force deletion of long unregistered nodes, regardless of the min size of the node group the belong to.")
+	forceDeleteFailedNodes                       = flag.Bool("force-delete-failed-nodes", false, "Whether to enable force deletion of failed nodes, regardless of the min size of the node group the belong to.")
 	enableDynamicResourceAllocation              = flag.Bool("enable-dynamic-resource-allocation", false, "Whether logic for handling DRA (Dynamic Resource Allocation) objects is enabled.")
 )
 
@@ -461,6 +462,7 @@ func createAutoscalingOptions() config.AutoscalingOptions {
 		CheckCapacityProvisioningRequestMaxBatchSize: *checkCapacityProvisioningRequestMaxBatchSize,
 		CheckCapacityProvisioningRequestBatchTimebox: *checkCapacityProvisioningRequestBatchTimebox,
 		ForceDeleteLongUnregisteredNodes:             *forceDeleteLongUnregisteredNodes,
+		ForceDeleteFailedNodes:                       *forceDeleteFailedNodes,
 		DynamicResourceAllocationEnabled:             *enableDynamicResourceAllocation,
 	}
 }