diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2479a8310..6af68990b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -259,6 +259,9 @@ never evicted because these pods won't be recreated.
 * Pods associated with DaemonSets are never evicted.
 * Pods with local storage are never evicted.
 * Best efforts pods are evicted before Burstable and Guaranteed pods.
+* All types of pods with annotation descheduler.alpha.kubernetes.io/evict are evicted. This 
+annotation is used to override checks which prevent eviction and user can select which pod is evicted. 
+User should know how and if the pod will be recreated.
 
 ### Pod disruption Budget (PDB)
 Pods subject to Pod Disruption Budget (PDB) are not evicted if descheduling violates its pod
diff --git a/pkg/descheduler/pod/pods.go b/pkg/descheduler/pod/pods.go
index 26b85f400..cf653d460 100644
--- a/pkg/descheduler/pod/pods.go
+++ b/pkg/descheduler/pod/pods.go
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ limitations under the License.
 package pod
 
 import (
-	"k8s.io/api/core/v1"
+	v1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
 	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/fields"
 	clientset "k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes"
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/types"
 )
 
+const (
+	evictPodAnnotationKey = "descheduler.alpha.kubernetes.io/evict"
+)
+
 // checkLatencySensitiveResourcesForAContainer checks if there are any latency sensitive resources like GPUs.
 func checkLatencySensitiveResourcesForAContainer(rl v1.ResourceList) bool {
 	if rl == nil {
@@ -54,7 +58,7 @@ func IsLatencySensitivePod(pod *v1.Pod) bool {
 // IsEvictable checks if a pod is evictable or not.
 func IsEvictable(pod *v1.Pod, evictLocalStoragePods bool) bool {
 	ownerRefList := OwnerRef(pod)
-	if IsMirrorPod(pod) || (!evictLocalStoragePods && IsPodWithLocalStorage(pod)) || len(ownerRefList) == 0 || IsDaemonsetPod(ownerRefList) || IsCriticalPod(pod) {
+	if !HaveEvictAnnotation(pod) && (IsMirrorPod(pod) || (!evictLocalStoragePods && IsPodWithLocalStorage(pod)) || len(ownerRefList) == 0 || IsDaemonsetPod(ownerRefList) || IsCriticalPod(pod)) {
 		return false
 	}
 	return true
@@ -127,6 +131,12 @@ func IsMirrorPod(pod *v1.Pod) bool {
 	return found
 }
 
+// HaveEvictAnnotation checks if the pod have evict annotation
+func HaveEvictAnnotation(pod *v1.Pod) bool {
+	_, found := pod.ObjectMeta.Annotations[evictPodAnnotationKey]
+	return found
+}
+
 func IsPodWithLocalStorage(pod *v1.Pod) bool {
 	for _, volume := range pod.Spec.Volumes {
 		if volume.HostPath != nil || volume.EmptyDir != nil {