Schedule a pod to a specific node

Step 1: Configure a node label

1. Log on to the Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) console.
2. In the left-side navigation pane, click Clusters.
3. On the Clusters page, click the name of a cluster or click Details in the Actions column. The details page of the cluster appears.
4. In the left-side navigation pane, click Nodes.
5. Select the cluster that you want to manage, and click Manage Labels and Taints in the upper-right corner of the page to go to the Manage Labels and Taints page.
6. Select one or more nodes and click Add Label.
7. In the dialog box that appears, set the label name and value of the nodes, and click OK.
   • Name: The name of the label. The name can contain letters, digits, hyphens (-), underscores (_), and periods (.). It must start and end with a letter or a digit.
   • Value: The value of the label. The value can be an empty string or contain letters, digits, hyphens (-), underscores (_), and periods (.). It must start and end with a letter or a digit.

Step 2. Schedule a pod to a specified node

1. In the left-side navigation pane, click Clusters.
2. On the Clusters page, click the name of a cluster or click Details in the Actions column. The details page of the cluster appears.
3. In the left-side navigation pane, click Workload.
4. On the Deployments tab, click Create from Template.
5. Configure the template to deploy a pod.
   • Cluster: Select the cluster where the pod is deployed.
   • Namespace: Select the namespace to which the pod belongs. In this example, the default namespace is selected.
   • Sample Template: In this example, Custom is selected.

   Enter the following template content:

    apiVersion: v1
    kind: Pod
    metadata:
      labels:
        name: hello-pod
      name: hello-pod
    spec:
      containers:
        - image: nginx
          imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
          name: hello-pod
          ports:
            - containerPort: 8080
              protocol: TCP
          resources: {}
          securityContext:
            capabilities: {}
            privileged: false
          terminationMessagePath: /dev/termination-log
      dnsPolicy: ClusterFirst
      restartPolicy: Always
      nodeSelector:                    
        group: worker                           ##This value must be the same as the node label that is created in Step 1.
      status: {}

6. Click Create. A message appears to indicate the deployment status.

Verify the scheduling result

You can use one of the following methods to check whether the pod has been deployed to the specified node.

1. After the pod is deployed, click the pod name that appears in the message to check the pod details.
   You can view the information about the pod labels and the ID of the node to which the pod is scheduled. The following figure indicates that the pod is scheduled to the node with the group:worker label.
2. In the left-side navigation pane, click Clusters.
3. On the Clusters page, click the name of a cluster or click Details in the Actions column. The details page of the cluster appears.
4. In the left-side navigation pane, click Workload.
5. The Deployments tab appears. Click the Pods tab, find the pod that you want to check, and then click the name of the pod to go to the pod details page.