[SOLVED] Kubernetes pods are pending not active

Kubernetes pods are pending not active

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?

Solution

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.