In my application, I have a rest server which locally interacts with a database via the command line (it's a long story). Anyway, the database is mounted in a local ssd on the node. I can guarantee that only pods of that type will by scheduled in the node pool, as I have tainted the nodes and added tolerances to my pods.

What I want to know is, how can I prevent kubernetes from scheduling multiple instances of my pod on a single node? I want to avoid this as I want my pod to be able to consume as much CPU as possible, and I also don't want multiple pods to interact via the local ssd.

How do I prevent scheduling of more than one pod of my type onto the node? I was thinking daemon sets at first, but I think down the line, I want to set my node pool to auto scale, that way when I have n nodes in my pool, and I request n+1 replicas, the node pool automatically scales up.