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Kubernetes Troubleshooting

Pending, ImagePullBackOff, CrashLoopBackOff, exit code 137, lying probes, empty Services, cluster DNS, evictions and stuck rollouts.

10 lessons · about 85 minutes

What you'll go through

  • 01Events before logs: where to look, and in what order8 min
  • 02The pod is Pending and nobody says why8 min
  • 03The image exists and the cluster insists it does not8 min
  • 04It restarts forever and the logs are already gone9 min
  • 05Exit code 137 and nothing in the log8 min
  • 06The health check killed a healthy application9 min
  • 07The Service exists, the pods run, and it returns nothing8 min
  • 08Half the lookups resolve and the other half do not9 min
  • 09Pods vanished and nobody deleted them8 min
  • 10Stuck at three of five, with half the traffic broken10 min