How to prevent your cluster autoscaler from evicting workloads

kubernetes

If you’re using the Kubernetes cluster-autoscaler, you might want to prevent it from evicting certain workloads for example, your Kubernetes Jobs.

You can do this by setting the annotation cluster-autoscaler.kubernetes.io/safe-to-evict: "false".

You can read the documentation here.

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