How to run a POD on a particular node?

1.	How to run a POD on a particular node?
Answer» Various methods are AVAILABLE to achieve it. nodeName: SPECIFY the NAME of a node in POD spec CONFIGURATION, it will try to run the POD on a specific node. nodeSelector: Assign a specific label to the node which has special resources and USE the same label in POD spec so that POD will run only on that node. nodeaffinities: required DuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution, preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution are hard and soft requirements for running the POD on specific nodes. This will be replacing nodeSelector in the future. It depends on the node labels.

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Various methods are AVAILABLE to achieve it.

nodeName: SPECIFY the NAME of a node in POD spec CONFIGURATION, it will try to run the POD on a specific node.
nodeSelector: Assign a specific label to the node which has special resources and USE the same label in POD spec so that POD will run only on that node.
nodeaffinities: required DuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution, preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution are hard and soft requirements for running the POD on specific nodes. This will be replacing nodeSelector in the future. It depends on the node labels.

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