Kubernetes Practical By Samson Tanimawo, PhD Published Nov 13, 2025 4 min read

Pod Evictability and Toleration

Some pods shouldn't evict. The patterns.

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.