A grants-intake Pod remains Pending. Events mention insufficient CPU on nodes, and a second similar Pod is Pending waiting for a PVC to bind. What should the developer do?
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Short Explanation
Pending is the lobby before admission—either no room (CPU) or the luggage never showed (PVC). Read the Events ticket. Fix requests, capacity, or volume binding instead of pretending the scheduler will shrug.
Full Explanation
Pods stay Pending when the scheduler cannot place them—often insufficient CPU/memory relative to requests, affinity/taints, or unbound PersistentVolumeClaims. kubectl describe Events surface those reasons. Remediation targets resource requests, cluster capacity, or PVC provisioning/binding. Deleting control-plane components, privileged security shortcuts, or changing restartPolicy do not clear genuine scheduling or volume constraints.