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mediumScheduling & AffinityFix

Tainted Out

The pod can't schedule. Something about the nodes is blocking it. Events mention taints but the meaning is unclear.

20 min
Initial Situation

A critical application pod stays Pending indefinitely. Running kubectl describe pod shows taint-related errors. The node appears to have resources available. Other system pods are running fine on the same node.

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Start this challenge in your local Kubernetes cluster:

$ kubeasy challenge start tainted-out