website/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/disruption.md

title	id	date	full_link	short_description	aka	tags
Disruption	disruption	2019-09-10	/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/disruptions/	An event that leads to Pod(s) going out of service		fundamental

Disruptions are events that lead to one or more {{< glossary_tooltip term_id="pod" text="Pods" >}} going out of service. A disruption has consequences for workload resources, such as {{< glossary_tooltip term_id="deployment" >}}, that rely on the affected Pods.

If you, as cluster operator, destroy a Pod that belongs to an application, Kubernetes terms that a voluntary disruption. If a Pod goes offline because of a Node failure, or an outage affecting a wider failure zone, Kubernetes terms that an involuntary disruption.

See Disruptions for more information.