Changes to Pod Eviction Timeout Are Not Taking Into Effect

Problem

Unable to change default value of Pod Eviction Timeout
Pods are getting evicted after the default pod eviction timeout value of 5 mins even after modifying it.

From Kubernetes v1.18 onwards taint based eviction method has been given preference over the node conditions based eviction.
Due to this even if the changes are made to the default value of pod-eviction-timeout, it is not taken in to the consideration. Instead it's taint based Eviction method that takes precedence over the pod-eviction-timeout.
In case of taint based evictions the default value of pod eviction timeout can be changed by adding couple of flags to the kube-apiserver and the flags responsible for this are, default-not-ready-toleration-seconds and default-unreachable-toleration-seconds.

For additional information regarding the Taint and Toleration based eviction please refer to the article Taint based Evictions

Last updated 8 months ago