As the other comment or pointed out, there’s a number of features now that tick these boxes: - StatefulSets mean that K8s scheduling is aware that the workload

As the other comment or pointed out, there’s a number of features now that tick these boxes: - StatefulSets mean that K8s scheduling is aware that the workload is stateful and the auto-attach of drives works fantastically in my experience. - NodeTaints/Tolerances and workload anti-affinities between workloads mean that you can very easily say “this workload runs on nodes with these features/labels” and “don’t run workload replicas on the same node” and “don’t run other workloads on the same node as this workload. Node groups on things like AWS EKS also make it really easy to get autoscaling groups of nodes with specific hardware.