# Eviction

> Eviction evicts a pod from its node subject to certain policies and safety constraints. This is a subresource of Pod.  A request to cause such an eviction is created by POSTing to .../pods/<pod name>/evictions.

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LLMS index: [llms.txt](/llms.txt)

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`apiVersion: policy/v1`

`import "k8s.io/api/policy/v1"`


## Eviction {#Eviction}

Eviction evicts a pod from its node subject to certain policies and safety constraints. This is a subresource of Pod.  A request to cause such an eviction is created by POSTing to .../pods/&lt;pod name&gt;/evictions.

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<table>
  <thead><tr><th>Field</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td><code>apiVersion</code><br/><em>string</em></td>
      <td>APIVersion defines the versioned schema of this representation of an object. Servers should convert recognized schemas to the latest internal value, and may reject unrecognized values. More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#resources</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><code>deleteOptions</code><br/><em><a href="https://andygol-k8s.netlify.app/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/definitions/delete-options-v1-meta/#DeleteOptions">DeleteOptions</a></em></td>
      <td>DeleteOptions may be provided</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><code>kind</code><br/><em>string</em></td>
      <td>Kind is a string value representing the REST resource this object represents. Servers may infer this from the endpoint the client submits requests to. Cannot be updated. In CamelCase. More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#types-kinds</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><code>metadata</code><br/><em><a href="https://andygol-k8s.netlify.app/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/definitions/object-meta-v1-meta/#ObjectMeta">ObjectMeta</a></em></td>
      <td>ObjectMeta describes the pod that is being evicted.</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>