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  2. Cohesity Cloud Scale Technology Manual Deployment Guide for Kubernetes Clusters
  3. Section IV. Maintenance
  4. Troubleshooting
  5. Troubleshooting AKS and EKS issues
  6. Pod status field shows as pending
Cohesity Cloud Scale Technology Manual Deployment Guide for Kubernetes Clusters

Pod status field shows as pending

If the pod Status field shows Pending state, it indicates that Kubernetes is not able to schedule the pod. To check use the following command:

$ kubectl get all -n netbackup-operator-system

The output is something like:

NAME                     READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
pod/msdp-operator-
controller-manager-
65d8fd7c4d-bsgms           2/2     Running   0          12m

pod/netbackup-
operator-controller-
manager-6c9dc8d87f
-pq8mr                     0/2     Pending   0          15s

For more details use the following pod describe command:

$ kubectl describe pod/netbackup-operator-controller-manager-6c9dc8d87f-pq8mr -n netbackup-operator-system

The output is something like:

  Type     Reason            Age                Message
  ----     ------            ----                  -------
  Warning  FailedScheduling  56s (x3 over 2m24s)   0/4 nodes are
                                                   available:1 node(s)
                                                   had taint {node- 
                                                   role.kubernetes.
                                                   io/master: }, that
                                                   the pod didn't
                                                   tolerate, 3 node(s) 
                                                   didn't match
                                                   Pod's node
                                                   affinity/selector.

To resolve this issue, you can edit the operator deployment using the following command and verify the nodeSelector:

kubectl edit deployment netbackup-operator-controller-manager -n netbackup-operator-system

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