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

title	id	date	full_link	short_description	aka	tags
Preemption	preemption	2019-01-31	/docs/concepts/configuration/pod-priority-preemption/#preemption	Preemption logic in Kubernetes helps a pending Pod to find a suitable Node by evicting low priority Pods existing on that Node.		operation

Preemption logic in Kubernetes helps a pending {{< glossary_tooltip term_id="pod" >}} to find a suitable {{< glossary_tooltip term_id="node" >}} by evicting low priority Pods existing on that Node.

If a Pod cannot be scheduled, the scheduler tries to preempt lower priority Pods to make scheduling of the pending Pod possible.