Kubernetes Intermediate About 30 min +220 XP

Report Workers Remain Pending

The report Deployment has run zero workers for ten minutes; its only pod is still waiting to be scheduled.

Stage 5 of 5 in Kubernetes Night Shift.

Briefing

The nightly reports start at 10:00, and the report Deployment has not run a single worker after a resource change was applied at 09:20.

The cluster is one small node that is mostly idle.

Whoever made the change left no manifest in the workspace, only a README with the usual sizing.

Sam's first thought is a taint from this afternoon's node maintenance.

The fix is yours to find: hints, the recovery checks and the debrief unlock inside the incident.

How it plays

  1. 01

    Get paged

    The alert fires and the clock starts. Read the page and the briefing.

  2. 02

    Investigate

    Work in a simulated shell with realistic output: logs, configs, services.

  3. 03

    Fix it

    Change the system the way you would in production. Hints are there if you get stuck.

  4. 04

    Prove it

    Automated checks verify the recovery, then the debrief explains what happened.

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