website/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/pod-priority.md

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title: Pod Priority
id: pod-priority
date: 2019-01-31
full_link: /docs/concepts/configuration/pod-priority-preemption/#pod-priority
short_description: >
  Pod Priority indicates the importance of a Pod relative to other Pods.

aka:
tags:
- operation
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 Pod Priority indicates the importance of a Pod relative to other Pods.

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[Pod Priority](/docs/concepts/configuration/pod-priority-preemption/#pod-priority) gives the ability to set scheduling priority of a Pod to be higher and lower than other Pods — an important feature for production clusters workload.