Managing Node Labels¶
You can add different labels to nodes and define different attributes for labels. By using these node labels, you can quickly understand the characteristics of each node.
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.
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¶
Log in to the CCE console and click the cluster name to access the cluster console.
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.
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.
After the label is added, check the added label in node data.