karpenter.sh/do-not-evict: true

Pods without an ownerRef (also called “controllerless” or "naked pods") will be evicted during voluntary node disruption, such as expiration or consolidation. A pod with the annotation karpenter.sh/do-not-evict: true will cause its node to be opted out from voluntary node disruption workflows.

Eviction

Consolidation
Emptiness
Expiration

See also

• Karpenter, karpenter.sh, provisioners.karpenter.sh, Karpenter releases, best practices, karpenter.sh/capacity-type, karpenter.sh/discovery, kind: Provisioner, kind: AWSNodeTemplate, kubectl provisioner, TopologyKey, FailedDraining, Evict, DisruptionBlocked, Karpenter logs, controller., ttlSecondsUntilExpired, KEDA, NodePools, Kind: NodePool, Workload Consolidation, Disruption controls