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continue } if pod.Status.Phase == v1.PodFailed { <del> failedPodsObserved++ </del> // This is a critical place where DS is often fighting with kubelet that rejects pods. // We need to avoid hot looping and backoff. backoffKey := failedPodsBackoffKey(ds, node.Name)

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DaemonSet controller waits for old pods to terminate before creating new ones for best-effort at-most-one pod per node. This is a deliberate design decision.

In most cases, DaemonSets won't tolerate two pods scheduled on the same node at the same time; for example, it's common to communicate with DaemonSet pods via . I'm going to close this ticket as this works as designed. Please feel free to reopen the ticket if you think there are still issues to be resolved.
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why does the DaemonSet controller wait for all pods 50 to be done, before moving to the NEXT 50 ? I completely understand that we want only at most 1 pod per node. But if a pod deletion fails on the node, move on to the next pod as long as the total unavailable pods are less than maxUnavailable. This will allow us to make progress in the face of bad nodes or failed pod deletions due to failing tear down of bad volumes or other reasons.
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Any progress on this issue? We also encountered this problem. There are thousands of nodes in our prod cluster and nodes often go down, which cause daemonset rolling update stucked, this problem really bother us.
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