diff --git a/content/en/docs/concepts/architecture/nodes.md b/content/en/docs/concepts/architecture/nodes.md index 823dddf710..fdb268896c 100644 --- a/content/en/docs/concepts/architecture/nodes.md +++ b/content/en/docs/concepts/architecture/nodes.md @@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ responsible for: - Evicting all the pods from the node using graceful termination if the node continues to be unreachable. The default timeouts are 40s to start reporting ConditionUnknown and 5m after that to start evicting pods. + The node controller checks the state of each node every `--node-monitor-period` seconds. #### Heartbeats @@ -278,6 +279,7 @@ the same time: `--large-cluster-size-threshold` nodes - default 50), then evictions are stopped. - Otherwise, the eviction rate is reduced to `--secondary-node-eviction-rate` (default 0.01) per second. + The reason these policies are implemented per availability zone is because one availability zone might become partitioned from the master while the others remain connected. If your cluster does not span multiple cloud provider availability zones,