Platform & DevOps·The orchestrator's model of the world
you asked for the workload to run somewhere, and something scored every node and picked one before any container existed.
Scheduler
Also calledworkload scheduler, placement engine
The control-plane component that assigns pending workloads to nodes, filtering out the impossible ones and scoring the rest. It is the origin of a large fraction of platform confusion, because 'the deploy is stuck' usually means a scheduler quietly deciding nothing satisfies your constraints. Its decisions are one-shot at placement time, which is why an already-running workload does not move when the cluster's shape changes.