Kubernetes Practical By Samson Tanimawo, PhD Published Dec 12, 2025 4 min read

Eviction vs Preemption

Both kick pods. Different reasons.

Eviction

Resource pressure. Pod removed; not necessarily replaced.

Memory full, disk full.

Preemption

Higher-priority pod needs space. Lower-priority preempted.

Graceful for the higher pod.

Respond

Eviction: address resource pressure. Preemption: review priority classes.

Different fixes.