Extending Kubernetes: Elevate Kubernetes with Extension Patterns, Operators, and Plugins

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O. YilmazExtending Kuberneteshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7095-0_5

5. Scheduling Extensions

Onur Yilmaz¹  

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Berlin, Germany

 

Action expresses priorities.

—Mahatma Gandhi

Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer

The scheduler is a core part of Kubernetes to assign workload to the nodes in the cluster. The assignment action is based on priorities and rules set by cluster admins and operators. This chapter will focus on extending the Kubernetes scheduler by creating custom schedulers and developing extensions. At the end of this chapter, you will run multiple schedulers simultaneously in the cluster. In addition, you will intervene in the ...