https://theithollow.com/tags/toleration/ Recent content in Toleration on The IT Hollow Hugo en-us Mon, 29 Jul 2019 14:15:22 +0000 https://theithollow.com/2019/07/29/kubernetes-taints-and-tolerations/ Mon, 29 Jul 2019 14:15:22 +0000 https://theithollow.com/2019/07/29/kubernetes-taints-and-tolerations/ <p>One of the best things about Kubernetes, is that I don&rsquo;t have to think about which piece of hardware my container will run on when I deploy it. The Kubernetes scheduler can make that decision for me. This is great until I actually DO care about what node my container runs on. This post will examine one solution to pod placement, through taints and tolerations.</p> <h2 id="taints---the-theory">Taints - The Theory</h2> <p>Suppose we had a Kubernetes cluster where we didn&rsquo;t want any pods to run on a specific node. You might need to do this for a variety of reasons, such as:</p>