diff --git a/deploy/kubernetes/production/application.yaml b/deploy/kubernetes/production/application.yaml
index 04b8bb2..49a1261 100644
--- a/deploy/kubernetes/production/application.yaml
+++ b/deploy/kubernetes/production/application.yaml
@@ -174,6 +174,13 @@ spec:
     spec:
       serviceAccountName: easyai-capacity-controller
       terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 30
+      affinity:
+        podAntiAffinity:
+          requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
+            - topologyKey: easyai.io/site
+              labelSelector:
+                matchLabels:
+                  app.kubernetes.io/name: easyai-capacity-controller
       nodeSelector:
         easyai.io/workload: "true"
       topologySpreadConstraints:
@@ -447,6 +454,14 @@ spec:
     spec:
       serviceAccountName: easyai-ai-gateway
       terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 90
+      affinity:
+        podAntiAffinity:
+          requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
+            - topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname
+              labelSelector:
+                matchLabels:
+                  app.kubernetes.io/name: easyai-worker
+                  easyai.io/site: ningbo
       topologySpreadConstraints:
         - maxSkew: 1
           topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname
@@ -612,6 +627,14 @@ spec:
     spec:
       serviceAccountName: easyai-ai-gateway
       terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 90
+      affinity:
+        podAntiAffinity:
+          requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
+            - topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname
+              labelSelector:
+                matchLabels:
+                  app.kubernetes.io/name: easyai-worker
+                  easyai.io/site: hongkong
       topologySpreadConstraints:
         - maxSkew: 1
           topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname
diff --git a/scripts/release-components.mjs b/scripts/release-components.mjs
index 6c80cf5..c79cdbb 100755
--- a/scripts/release-components.mjs
+++ b/scripts/release-components.mjs
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ const changed = git([
 const apiPatterns = [
   /^apps\/api\//,
   /^go\.work(?:\.sum)?$/,
+  /^deploy\/kubernetes\//,
 ]
 const webPatterns = [
   /^apps\/web\//,
diff --git a/tests/release/manual-release-test.sh b/tests/release/manual-release-test.sh
index 4b80b67..eeb3e85 100755
--- a/tests/release/manual-release-test.sh
+++ b/tests/release/manual-release-test.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ trap 'rm -rf "$tmp"' EXIT
 new_repo() {
   local name=$1
   local repo=$tmp/$name
-  mkdir -p "$repo/apps/api/migrations" "$repo/apps/web/src" "$repo/packages/contracts/src" "$repo/docs"
+  mkdir -p "$repo/apps/api/migrations" "$repo/apps/web/src" "$repo/packages/contracts/src" \
+    "$repo/deploy/kubernetes/production" "$repo/docs"
   git -C "$repo" init -q
   git -C "$repo" config user.name 'Manual Release Test'
   git -C "$repo" config user.email 'manual-release-test@example.invalid'
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ new_repo() {
   printf 'SELECT 1;\n' >"$repo/apps/api/migrations/0001_init.sql"
   printf 'web\n' >"$repo/apps/web/src/app.ts"
   printf 'contracts\n' >"$repo/packages/contracts/src/index.ts"
+  printf 'kind: Deployment\n' >"$repo/deploy/kubernetes/production/application.yaml"
   # shellcheck disable=SC2016
   printf 'ARG API_RUNTIME_IMAGE=scratch\nARG WEB_RUNTIME_IMAGE=scratch\nFROM ${API_RUNTIME_IMAGE} AS api\nCOPY apps/api /app\nFROM ${WEB_RUNTIME_IMAGE} AS web\nCOPY apps/web /web\n' >"$repo/Dockerfile"
   printf 'docs\n' >"$repo/docs/readme.md"
@@ -80,6 +82,13 @@ git -C "$repo" add -A && git -C "$repo" commit -qm docs
 result=$(classify "$repo" "$base")
 node -e 'const value=JSON.parse(process.argv[1]); if(value.components!=="none")process.exit(1)' "$result"
 
+repo=$(new_repo kubernetes-runtime)
+base=$(git -C "$repo" rev-parse HEAD)
+printf 'kind: Deployment\n# scheduling changed\n' >"$repo/deploy/kubernetes/production/application.yaml"
+git -C "$repo" add -A && git -C "$repo" commit -qm kubernetes-runtime
+result=$(classify "$repo" "$base")
+node -e 'const value=JSON.parse(process.argv[1]); if(value.components!=="api"||value.migrationsChanged)process.exit(1)' "$result"
+
 bare=$tmp/origin.git
 git init -q --bare "$bare"
 repo=$(new_repo preflight)