Cloud-Native Microservices With Kubernetes - 2nd Edition

Key Takeaways

There are 3 main mechanisms to assign your workloads to specific nodes in a Kubernetes cluster:

• Taints and Tolerations: This mechanism is useful when you want to repel Pods from specific nodes unless they explicitly tolerate the node's taints. It's ideal for scenarios where you need strict isolation or have complex scheduling requirements.

• nodeSelector