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recommended to disable preemption.
{{< /note >}}

{{< note >}}
In Kubernetes 1.15 and later,
PriorityClasses have the option to set `preemptionPolicy: Never`.
This will prevent pods of that PriorityClass from preempting other pods.
{{< /note >}}

In Kubernetes 1.11 and later, preemption is controlled by a kube-scheduler flag
`disablePreemption`, which is set to `false` by default.
If you want to disable preemption despite the above note, you can set
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description: "This priority class should be used for XYZ service pods only."
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### Non-preempting PriorityClasses (alpha) {#non-preempting-priority-class}

1.15 adds the `PreemptionPolicy` field as an alpha feature.
It is disabled by default in 1.15,
and requires the `NonPreemptingPriority`[feature gate](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/command-line-tools-reference/feature-gates/
) to be enabled.

Pods with `PreemptionPolicy: Never` will be placed in the scheduling queue
ahead of lower-priority pods,
but they cannot preempt other pods.
A non-preempting pod waiting to be scheduled will stay at the head of the
scheduling queue, until sufficient resources are free,
and it can be scheduled.
Non-preempting pods may still be preempted by other,
high-priority pods.

`PreemptionPolicy` defaults to `PreemptLowerPriority`,
which will allow pods of that PriorityClass to preempt lower-priority pods
(as is existing default behavior).
If `PreemptionPolicy` is set to `Never`,
pods in that PriorityClass will be non-preempting.

An example use case is for data science workloads.
A user may submit a job that they want to be prioritized above other workloads,
but do not wish to discard existing work by preempting running pods.
The high priority job with `PreemptionPolicy: Never` will be scheduled
ahead of other queued pods,
as soon as sufficient cluster resources "naturally" become free.

#### Example Non-preempting PriorityClass

```yaml
apiVersion: scheduling.k8s.io/v1
kind: PriorityClass
metadata:
name: high-priority-nonpreempting
value: 1000000
preemptionPolicy: Never
globalDefault: false
description: "This priority class will not cause other pods to be preempted."
```

## Pod priority

After you have one or more PriorityClasses, you can create Pods that specify one
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