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Three replicas of one service landed on the same node and one reboot killed them all. How do affinity and anti-affinity actually work?

Hard versus soft rules, topology keys, weights that lose to everything else, and the IgnoredDuringExecution half nobody remembers. Placement shapes blast radius only when paired with disruption budgets.

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Hard versus soft rules, topology keys, weights that lose to everything else, and the IgnoredDuringExecution half nobody remembers. Placement shapes blast radius only when paired with disruption budgets.

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