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Kubernetes Node Management

Deals with the management and configuration of worker machines — how nodes are labelled, pooled, tainted, and selected to control where workloads run.


  • Node

    A physical or virtual machine that runs containers as directed by the Kubernetes control plane.

  • Node Labels

    Key-value pairs used to organise nodes and enable workload targeting via node selectors and affinity rules.

  • Node Pool

    A collection of nodes with similar configurations within a cluster, used for workload separation and scaling.

  • Node Resource Group

    The Azure resource group that contains all AKS node-related infrastructure resources.

  • Node Selector

    Kubernetes feature to constrain Pod scheduling to nodes matching specified labels.

  • Node Taints

    Mark nodes to repel Pods unless the Pod explicitly tolerates the taint — used to reserve nodes for specific workloads.