Managing Node Labels

Node Label Usage Scenario

Node labels are mainly used in the following scenarios:

  • Node management: Node labels are used to classify nodes.

  • Node affinity or anti-affinity for workloads: By adding labels to nodes, you can schedule pods to specific nodes through node affinity or prevent pods from being scheduled to specific nodes through node anti-affinity. For details, see Scheduling Policies (Affinity/Anti-affinity).

Inherent Label of a Node

After a node is created, some fixed labels exist and cannot be deleted. For details about these labels, see Table 1.

Note

Do not manually change the inherent labels that are automatically added to a node. If the manually changed value conflicts with the system value, the system value is used.

Table 1 Inherent labels of a node

Key

Description

New: topology.kubernetes.io/region

Old: failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region

Region where the node is located

New: topology.kubernetes.io/zone

Old: failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone

AZ where the node is located

New: node.kubernetes.io/baremetal

Old: failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/is-baremetal

Whether the node is a bare metal node

false indicates that the node is not a bare metal node.

node.kubernetes.io/container-engine

Container engine

Example: docker or containerd

node.kubernetes.io/instance-type

Node specifications

kubernetes.io/arch

Node processor architecture

kubernetes.io/hostname

Node name

kubernetes.io/os

Node OS type

node.kubernetes.io/subnetid

ID of the subnet where the node is located.

os.architecture

Node processor architecture

For example, amd64 indicates a AMD64-bit processor.

os.name

Node OS name

os.version

Node OS kernel version

accelerator

GPU node labels.

cce.cloud.com/cce-nodepool

The dedicated label of a node in a node pool.

Adding or Deleting a Node Label

  1. Log in to the CCE console and click the cluster name to access the cluster console.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Nodes. On the displayed page, click the Nodes tab, select the target node and click Labels and Taints in the upper left corner.

  3. In the displayed dialog box, click Add operation under Batch Operation, and then choose Add/Update or Delete.

    Enter the key and value of the label to be added or deleted, and click OK.

    For example, the key is deploy_qa and the value is true, indicating that the node is used to deploy the QA (test) environment.

  4. After the label is added, check the added label in node data.