Troubleshooting Scheduling in Kubernetes Deployments

45 minutes
  • 2 Learning Objectives

About this Hands-on Lab

You are a container engineer at Cube4Lyf, an e-gaming platform geared towards puzzle and logic games. You’ve just been alerted that there’s an issue with the deployment of a new web service to a staging cluster. The pods are stuck in a ‘Pending’ state. You need to investigate why the pods are not deploying and resolve the issue so the new web service can be assessed in the staging environment. There are a number of other resources currently active in the cluster, some are still needed, and others are not. You’ve been approved to delete any resources with the label `test=true`, if needed.

Learning Objectives

Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:

Identify the Capacity of All Nodes and Compare to the Required Capacity for the New Web Service

Take a look at the deployment.yaml on your lab vm. Run the command kubectl apply -f deployment.yaml, and observe that it does not deploy both pod replicas. Using kubectl, identify the issue preventing the deployment.

Delete Pods with the Label ‘Test=True’ to Allow New Web Service Pods to Be Scheduled

Use kubectl to delete unneeded resources—only delete those with the label test=true! Ensure both replicas of the deployment start successfully.

Additional Resources

  • kubectl Reference Docs: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubectl/kubectl-commands

  • Scheduling in Kubernetes: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/kube-scheduler/

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