A developer’s Pod stays Pending and events show it cannot attach a volume because the PVC is still unbound. What is the application-side understanding?
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Short Explanation
No parking space, no car in the lot—if the PVC never binds, the Pod that needs that volume sits in Pending. Fix or wait for binding; yanking the Deployment or poking probes won’t invent a volume.
Full Explanation
Pods that reference an unbound PersistentVolumeClaim typically remain Pending until a matching PersistentVolume binds. Image pull secrets and readiness probes address other failure modes. Application developers consume PVCs; they should recognize unbound claims as a blocker rather than deleting workloads hoping volumes appear.