Kubernetes
Practical
By Samson Tanimawo, PhD
Published Nov 13, 2025
4 min read
Pod Evictability and Toleration
Some pods shouldn't evict. The patterns.
Live workflow · 3 working · 1 queuedLive
Signal · gather Working
Decide · pick action Working
Apply · with verify Working
Learn · update playbook Queued
Tolerations
Allow scheduling on tainted nodes.
Critical pods on dedicated nodes.
Priority
High priority pods evict less.
Combine with tolerations.
Not evictable
safe-to-evict: false annotation.
Use sparingly; blocks node drain.