What is Kubernetes Scheduling?

The Kubernetes Scheduler is a core component of Kubernetes: After a user or a controller creates a Pod, the Kubernetes Scheduler, monitoring the Object Store for unassigned Pods, will assign the Pod to a Node. Then, the Kubelet, monitoring the Object Store for assigned Pods, will execute the Pod.

what is the scheduler for?

The Kubernetes scheduler is in charge of scheduling pods onto nodes. Basically it works like this:

You create a pod
The scheduler notices that the new pod you created doesn’t have a node assigned to it
The scheduler assigns a node to the pod

It’s not responsible for actually running the pod – that’s the kubelet’s job. So it basically just needs to make sure every pod has a node assigned to it. Easy, right?

Kubernetes in general has this idea of a “controller”. A controller’s job is to:

look at the state of the system
notice ways in which the actual state does not match the desired state (like “this pod needs to be assigned a node”)
repeat

The scheduler is a kind of controller. There are lots of different controllers and they all have different jobs and operate independently.

How Kubernetes Selects The Right node?

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