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title: Descheduler
description: Descheduler, based on its policy, finds pods that can be moved and evicts them.
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  tagline: Descheduler, based on its policy, finds pods that can be moved and evicts them.
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    - text: Source
      link: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/descheduler
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    - text: Deployment Chart
      link: https://gitea.alexlebens.dev/alexlebens/infrastructure/src/branch/main/clusters/cl01tl/helm/descheduler
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import { Aside } from '@astrojs/starlight/components';

<Aside type="tip">Has an internal [Grafana Dashboard](https://grafana.alexlebens.net/goto/afit9jt9odji8a?orgId=1).</Aside>

# Purpose

Automated service that balances pods across the nodes according to configuration.

# Notes

Mostly used to balance number of pods. Current limit is set to 200 which is nearly twice the defaults, but this can sometimes be met during reboots during upgrades as pods are evicted. Then this will balance out one all nodes are healthy again.