11.Taints-and-Tolerations-vs-Node-Affinity.md

Taints and Tolerations vs Node Affinity

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In this section, we will take a look at Taints and Tolerations vs Node Affinity

• Taints and Tolerations do not guarantee that the pods will only prefer these nodes; in this case, the red pods may end up on one of the other nodes that do not have a taint or toleration set.

  

• As such, a combination of taints and tolerations and node affinity rules can be used together to completely dedicate nodes for specific parts.

  

K8s Reference Docs:

• https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/taint-and-toleration/
• https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/assign-pods-nodes-using-node-affinity/