After a school district rolls a bad image, Pods repeatedly fail to start and show CrashLoopBackOff. What does that status primarily indicate?
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Short Explanation
CrashLoopBackOff is Kubernetes saying it keeps trying to start the container but keeps failing—and it is slowing down between tries so it does not hammer the node. It is still a self-heal attempt, just with a bad image or config underneath.
Full Explanation
CrashLoopBackOff appears when a container exits repeatedly after start; kubelet backs off restart attempts exponentially. The controller and kubelet continue trying rather than abandoning the Pod entirely. The status does not mean the API server deleted the Deployment or that scheduling was permanently disabled.