website/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/kube-scheduler.md

title	id	date	full_link	short_description	aka	tags
kube-scheduler	kube-scheduler	2018-04-12	/docs/reference/generated/kube-scheduler/	Control plane component that watches for newly created pods with no assigned node, and selects a node for them to run on.		architecture

Control plane component that watches for newly created {{< glossary_tooltip term_id="pod" text="Pods" >}} with no assigned {{< glossary_tooltip term_id="node" text="node">}}, and selects a node for them to run on.

Factors taken into account for scheduling decisions include: individual and collective resource requirements, hardware/software/policy constraints, affinity and anti-affinity specifications, data locality, inter-workload interference, and deadlines.