If mandatory placement is about "must" and "must not", then advisory placement is the "I’d prefer if" alternative. For constraints with scores greater than -INFINITY and less than INFINITY, the cluster will try to accommodate your wishes but may ignore them if the alternative is to stop some of the cluster resources.

As in life, where if enough people prefer something it effectively becomes mandatory, advisory colocation constraints can combine with other elements of the configuration to behave as if they were mandatory.

<rsc_colocation id="colocate-maybe" rsc="A" with-rsc="B" score="500"/>