Define Application Placement Preferences

22 min4 tutorials

Express placement preferences for job allocations within your cluster using affinities and spread. Prevent priority inversion with preemption.

Advanced Scheduling with Nomad

Learn about advanced scheduling features including affinity and spread.

1 min

Prevent Priority Inversion with Preemption

Enable and use preemption for service and batch jobs in Nomad to keep critical jobs running by evicting lower priority work.

8 min

Express Job Placement Preferences with Affinities

Express placement preferences for your jobs using affinities. Affinities act like soft constraints, and jobs using them will run even if the affinity can not be met.

6 min

Increase Failure Tolerance with Spread

Prevent failures across a physical domain such as datacenter or rack from affecting application availability by using spread criteria in your jobs.

7 min