intermediateScheduling: Affinity, Taints & Topology Spread

What are the three taint effects?

NoSchedule prevents new untolerated Pods from being scheduled. PreferNoSchedule is the soft version. NoExecute evicts already-running Pods that don't tolerate it, optionally after tolerationSeconds.

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