`. For example, if my node name is 'kubernetes-foo-node-1.c.a-robinson.internal' and my desired label is 'disktype=ssd', then I can run `kubectl label nodes kubernetes-foo-node-1.c.a-robinson.internal disktype=ssd`.
If this fails with an "invalid command" error, you're likely using an older version of kubectl that doesn't have the `label` command. In that case, see the [previous version](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/blob/a053dbc313572ed60d89dae9821ecab8bfd676dc/examples/node-selection/README.md) of this guide for instructions on how to manually set labels on a node.
Also, note that label keys must be in the form of DNS labels (as described in the [identifiers doc](../../docs/design/identifiers.md)), meaning that they are not allowed to contain any upper-case letters.
You can verify that it worked by re-running `kubectl get nodes` and checking that the node now has a label.
### Step Two: Add a nodeSelector field to your pod configuration
Take whatever pod config file you want to run, and add a nodeSelector section to it, like this. For example, if this is my pod config:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: nginx
labels:
env: test
spec:
containers:
- name: nginx
image: nginx
Then add a nodeSelector like so:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: nginx
labels:
env: test
spec:
containers:
- name: nginx
image: nginx
imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
nodeSelector:
disktype: ssd
When you then run `kubectl create -f pod.yaml`, the pod will get scheduled on the node that you attached the label to! You can verify that it worked by running `kubectl get pods -o wide` and looking at the "NODE" that the pod was assigned to.
### Conclusion
While this example only covered one node, you can attach labels to as many nodes as you want. Then when you schedule a pod with a nodeSelector, it can be scheduled on any of the nodes that satisfy that nodeSelector. Be careful that it will match at least one node, however, because if it doesn't the pod won't be scheduled at all.
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