Kubernetes pods are pending not active

Question

If I run this:

kubectl get pods -n kube-system

I get this output:

NAME                                    READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
coredns-6fdd4f6856-6bl64                0/1       Pending   0          1h
coredns-6fdd4f6856-xgrbm                0/1       Pending   0          1h
kubernetes-dashboard-65c76f6c97-c69jg   0/1       Pending   0          13m

supposedly I need a kubernetes scheduler in order to actually launch containers? Does anyone know how to initiate a kube-scheduler?

How many nodes are in your cluster? If you only have one node, you must taint it so pods can run on it — Alassane Ndiaye, May 06 '19 at 21:58

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 07 '19 at 00:49

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More than a Kubernetes scheduler issue, it looks like it's more about not having enough resources on your nodes (or no nodes at all) in your cluster to schedule any workloads. You can check your nodes with:

$ kubectl get nodes

Also, you are not likely able to see any control plane resource on the kube-system namespace because you may be using managed services like EKS or GKE.

answered May 07 '19 at 00:49

Rico

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yeah there was a mismatch between the cloudformation stack and the eks cluster – Alexander Mills May 07 '19 at 00:50

Kubernetes pods are pending not active

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