What are the two steps performed by the kube-scheduler to select a node to schedule a pod?

Grouping and placing are not the standard technical terms used by the kube-scheduler for its node selection process.

Selecting is too generic and doesn't accurately describe the refined scoring process that follows filtering to pick the best node.

The kube-scheduler first performs a "filtering" step, which identifies a set of viable nodes where the pod can run based on criteria like resource requirements and node affinity. After filtering, it proceeds to a "scoring" step, which ranks the viable nodes based on a set of scoring functions to find the best-fit node for the pod.

Creating is an action performed by the kubelet on the selected node, not a step in the kube-scheduler's node selection process.