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mediumScheduling & AffinityFix

Stuck Pending

The pod refuses to start. It's been Pending for minutes. The cluster has available nodes, but something is blocking scheduling.

15 min
Initial Situation

A new application was deployed but the pod stays in Pending state. Running kubectl describe pod shows events about node selection. The cluster has nodes with available resources. Other pods in the namespace are running fine.

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Start this challenge in your local Kubernetes cluster:

$ kubeasy challenge start stuck-pending