if a node is tainted is there a way to still schedule the pods to that node

Question

Can i still schedule pods to a node if its tainted?

Answer 1

When a node is tainted, the pods don't get scheduled by default, however, if we have to still schedule a pod to a tainted node we can start applying tolerations to the pod spec.

Apply a taint to a node:

kubectl taint nodes node1 key=value:NoSchedule

Apply toleration to a pod:

spec:
tolerations:
- key: "key"
operator: "Equal"
value: "value"
effect: "NoSchedule"