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title: "Scheduling, Preemption and Eviction"
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content_type: concept
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In Kubernetes, scheduling refers to making sure that {{<glossary_tooltip text="Pods" term_id="pod">}}
are matched to {{<glossary_tooltip text="Nodes" term_id="node">}} so that the
{{<glossary_tooltip text="kubelet" term_id="kubelet">}} can run them. Preemption
is the process of terminating Pods with lower {{<glossary_tooltip text="Priority" term_id="pod-priority">}}
so that Pods with higher Priority can schedule on Nodes. Eviction is the process
of terminating one or more Pods on Nodes.

## Scheduling

* [Kubernetes Scheduler](/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/kube-scheduler/)
* [Assigning Pods to Nodes](/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/assign-pod-node/)
* [Pod Overhead](/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/pod-overhead/)
* [Pod Topology Spread Constraints](/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/topology-spread-constraints/)
* [Taints and Tolerations](/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/taint-and-toleration/)
* [Scheduling Framework](/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/scheduling-framework)
* [Dynamic Resource Allocation](/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/dynamic-resource-allocation)
* [Scheduler Performance Tuning](/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/scheduler-perf-tuning/)
* [Resource Bin Packing for Extended Resources](/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/resource-bin-packing/)
* [Pod Scheduling Readiness](/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/pod-scheduling-readiness/)
* [Descheduler](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/descheduler#descheduler-for-kubernetes)

## Pod Disruption

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* [Pod Priority and Preemption](/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/pod-priority-preemption/)
* [Node-pressure Eviction](/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/node-pressure-eviction/)
* [API-initiated Eviction](/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/api-eviction/)