Pending on Purpose, Pending by Mistake
The worker nodes reserved for the reports team's batch work carry a label for it. The team's wishlist Deployment is meant to run only on those nodes, but its Pods have been Pending since it was created.
wishlist in reports run, and only on the nodes reserved for the team's batch work.Start with kubectl get nodes --show-labels and kubectl describe pod -n reports -l app=wishlist.
About this machine
Ubuntu 24.04 with a private practice cluster: a real Kubernetes API server, scheduler and controllers, and three nodes (controlplane, node01, node02). Containers are simulated, so images never download and kubectl logs/exec are not available. k is an alias for kubectl, with completion. The grader checks the cluster's final state, not the commands you typed.
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