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emsecrist
Flight Engineer
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Pending Pods

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Hello All,

Can anyone recommend a set of steps or other troubleshooting ideas for fixing Pods in Pending status? 

Thanks,

Eric

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Chetan_Tiwary_
Community Manager
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Hello @emsecrist !

Thanks for reaching out !

PENDING status of a pod means : It is either not being able to be scheduled on the node or is waiting to be scheduled or one of the containers has not been initialized. 

Chetan_Tiwary__0-1691501007131.png

 

A pod's pending status can be due to n number of issues -> which majorly can be summed up in to the following categories :

1. Configuration dependencies : like configmap, persistent volume , secret etc not working or missing configurations.

2. Image issues : pulling from wrong repo , wrong image name , incorrect tag or authentication issues which prevents the image usage etc.

3. Scheduling or Node issues : may be nodes are not ready or they are cordoned off ( unschedulable ) , node selectors/labels issues , taints and toleration issues , affinity and anti-affinity rules , resource limits like node pressures ( disk/ cpu / memory ) which can prevent pods to be scheduled. 

The major tools OpenShift admin has to troubleshoot these issues are as follows :

1. Check the logs ( oc log  <pod-name> )

2. Check the cluster wide events ( oc get events

3. Check the pod specs ( oc describe pod <pod-name> )

4. Check the deployment spec ( oc describe deployment <deploymentname> )

5. Check the node spec ( oc describe node <node-name> )

6. Check the taints in the node ( oc describe node <node-name> | grep -i taints )

7. Check the node labels (  oc get nodes -o wide or oc get nodes -L <labelname> )

Once you have got the idea about the issue throught the help of the above commands , you can then resolve it by applying the corresponding solution like correcting the image name or tag , applying / providing the correct labels or node selectors or providing the correct pv or configmap or secret etc. 

Refer here for node related stuffs : https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.10/nodes/index.html 

Debugging pod K8 documentation : https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug/debug-application/debug-pods/ 

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Chetan_Tiwary_
Community Manager
Community Manager
  • 4,305 Views

Hello @emsecrist !

Thanks for reaching out !

PENDING status of a pod means : It is either not being able to be scheduled on the node or is waiting to be scheduled or one of the containers has not been initialized. 

Chetan_Tiwary__0-1691501007131.png

 

A pod's pending status can be due to n number of issues -> which majorly can be summed up in to the following categories :

1. Configuration dependencies : like configmap, persistent volume , secret etc not working or missing configurations.

2. Image issues : pulling from wrong repo , wrong image name , incorrect tag or authentication issues which prevents the image usage etc.

3. Scheduling or Node issues : may be nodes are not ready or they are cordoned off ( unschedulable ) , node selectors/labels issues , taints and toleration issues , affinity and anti-affinity rules , resource limits like node pressures ( disk/ cpu / memory ) which can prevent pods to be scheduled. 

The major tools OpenShift admin has to troubleshoot these issues are as follows :

1. Check the logs ( oc log  <pod-name> )

2. Check the cluster wide events ( oc get events

3. Check the pod specs ( oc describe pod <pod-name> )

4. Check the deployment spec ( oc describe deployment <deploymentname> )

5. Check the node spec ( oc describe node <node-name> )

6. Check the taints in the node ( oc describe node <node-name> | grep -i taints )

7. Check the node labels (  oc get nodes -o wide or oc get nodes -L <labelname> )

Once you have got the idea about the issue throught the help of the above commands , you can then resolve it by applying the corresponding solution like correcting the image name or tag , applying / providing the correct labels or node selectors or providing the correct pv or configmap or secret etc. 

Refer here for node related stuffs : https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.10/nodes/index.html 

Debugging pod K8 documentation : https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug/debug-application/debug-pods/ 

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