Managing Pods distribution across a cluster is hard. The well-known Kubernetes features for Pod affinity and anti-affinity, allow some control of Pod placement in different topologies. However, these features only resolve part of Pods distribution use cases: either place unlimited Pods to a single topology, or disallow two Pods to co-locate in the same topology.
In between these two extreme cases, there is a common need to distribute the Pods evenly across the topologies, so as to achieve better cluster utilization and high availability of applications. The PodTopologySpread scheduling plugin (originally proposed as EvenPodsSpread) was designed to fill that gap. We promoted it to beta in 1.18.
Source: kubernetes.io