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Manage Pod Scheduling in a Kubernetes Cluster by Using Taints and Tolerations

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Part of Kubernetes Cluster Architecture Topic: Programming

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What you'll do

In this challenge, you will manage pod scheduling in a Kubernetes cluster by using taints and tolerations.

  1. Apply a taint to a node
  2. Create a Deployment
  3. Review the scheduling of a replica pod and the pod tolerance to a tainted node
  4. Create a Deployment in which replica pods contain a toleration
  5. Evict a pod by using a taint
  6. Remove a taint from a node

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