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# Scheduling Pods with Taints and Tolerations in Kubernetes
## Taint one of the worker nodes to repel work
Use the following command to taint the node:
```
kubectl get nodes
kubectl taint node $nodeName node-type=prod:NoSchedule
```
## Schedule a pod to the dev environment
Use the following YAML to specify a pod that will be scheduled to the dev environment:
**dev-pod.yaml**
```
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: dev-pod
labels:
app: busybox
spec:
containers:
- name: dev
image: busybox
command: ['sh', '-c', 'echo Hello Kubernetes! && sleep 3600']
```
Use the following command to create the pod:
```
kubectl create -f dev-pod.yaml
```
## Allow a pod to be scheduled to the prod environment
Use the following YAML to create a deployment and a pod that will tolerate the prod environment:
**prod-deployment.yaml**
```
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: prod
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: prod
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: prod
spec:
containers:
- args:
- sleep
- "3600"
image: busybox
name: main
tolerations:
- key: node-type
operator: Equal
value: prod
effect: NoSchedule
```
Use the following command to create the pod:
```
kubectl create -f prod-deployment.yaml
kubectl get pods -o wide
```
## Verify each pod has been scheduled and verify the toleration.
Use the following command to verify the pods have been scheduled:
```
kubectl get pods -o wide
```
Scale up the deployment:
We can see the prod pods will be deployed on node .102 or .103 where as the dev-pod would only ever be deployed on .103 because of the taint on node .102
```
kubectl scale deployment/prod --replicas=3
```
Verify the toleration of the production pod:
```
kubectl get pods $podName -o yaml | grep tolerations: -A12
```
I found the video didn't do a great job explaining what was happening but to show it's working, I made a new deployment and tried making pods until it crashed because the tainted node wouldn't accept them,
**test.yaml**
```
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: test
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: test
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: test
spec:
containers:
- args:
- sleep
- "3600"
image: busybox
name: main
```
Use the following command to create the pod:
We can see the test pods won't get deployed on node .102 because unlike the prod code it doesn't have the toleration set to bypass the taint on the node.
```
kubectl create -f test.yaml
kubectl scale deployment/test --replicas=30
kubectl get pods -o wide
```