diff --git a/ansible/roles/schulcloud-client-core/templates/deployment.yml.j2 b/ansible/roles/schulcloud-client-core/templates/deployment.yml.j2
index f5dea5ec51..400377c3fb 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/schulcloud-client-core/templates/deployment.yml.j2
+++ b/ansible/roles/schulcloud-client-core/templates/deployment.yml.j2
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ spec:
       affinity:
         podAffinity:
           preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
-          - weight: 100
+          - weight: 9
             podAffinityTerm:
               labelSelector:
                 matchExpressions:
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ spec:
                   values:
                   - client
               topologyKey: "cloud.ionos.com/nodepool-name"
-          - weight: 10
+          - weight: 20
             podAffinityTerm:
               labelSelector:
                 matchExpressions: