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Pod Disruption Budget - CI/CD Glossary Definition

A pod disruption budget limits how many pods of an application can be voluntarily evicted at once (during node drains or upgrades), keeping a minimum number available. It does not protect against involuntary failures like a node crash.

Why it matters

During a cluster upgrade in CD, a PDB ensures rolling node drains never take a service below its minimum healthy replicas, avoiding self-inflicted outages.

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