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# What are interruptible labels and how do they affect Node maintenance?

Interruptible labels are **Pod-level** labels that control how CKS handles a Pod during Node maintenance, reboots, or scale-down. CKS supports three eviction strategies:

* **Non-interruptible** (no label, default): CKS will not proceed with Node maintenance or scale-down while these Pods are running. Use for critical training jobs and single-instance stateful apps.
* **Interruptible** (`qos.coreweave.cloud/interruptable: "true"`): CKS terminates the Pod immediately when a Node action begins, without waiting for `terminationGracePeriodSeconds`. Use for stateless workloads that can be restarted without data loss.
* **Gracefully interruptible** (`qos.coreweave.com/graceful-interruptible: "true"`): CKS blocks the Node action until the Pod terminates or its `terminationGracePeriodSeconds` expires. Use for stateful workloads that can shut down cleanly.

These labels affect Pod behavior during Node maintenance, not Node pricing or capacity tier. For reduced-cost preemptible compute, see [Spot Instances](/platform/capacity-plans#spot-instances).

For full details, see [Pod interruption and eviction policies](/products/cks/clusters/scheduling/workload-scheduling#pod-interruption-and-eviction-policies).

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