---
title: >-
  Introducing Support for the Kubernetes Executor on Astro, Now in Private
  Preview
description: >-
  The K8s Executor offers Astro customers task isolation, efficient resourcing,
  and simplicity.
date: 2023-02-23T00:00:00.000Z
authors:
  - author: src/content/people/juliana-o'donohue.md
tags: []
categories: []
canonical_url: >-
  https://www.astronomer.io/blog/introducing-support-for-the-kubernetes-executor-on-astro/
---
We’re excited to announce that the [Kubernetes (K8s) Executor](https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/executor/kubernetes.html) is now available on Astro to customers in a [Private Preview](/docs/astro/feature-previews). A user can select the Kubernetes Executor in the Astro UI when creating a deployment.

![image2](/archive/7tTpBPeWrmrsTmjq76dfcC/90c7a49812df742e404cf32350aa443f/image2.webp)

*Figure 1: Create a new Deployment and select the Kubernetes Executor from the dropdown in configuration.*

While a Deployment will only use one executor at a time, a user can edit the Deployment’s executor via the Astro UI, and a Workspace or Cluster can have Deployments that run different Executors.

![image1](/archive/5EJbujS2epNCTyssZa5i7i/ff52e77da07e8d4174a7c77c3efa435c/image1.webp)

*Figure 2: Edit an existing Deployment and switch to the Kubernetes Executor.*

Some benefits of the K8s Executor include:

- Isolation: Each task runs in its own K8s Pod on a worker node. This means no dependency conflicts and no noisy neighbor problems.
- Resource requests: You can specify CPU and memory requests per task.
- Simplicity: Task pods autoscale, no concurrency configurations.