Kubernetes pod not starting - kubernetes

Question

I have a kubernetes cluster with 5 nodes. When I add a simple nginx pod it will be scheduled to one of the nodes but it will not start up. It will not even pull the image.
This is the nginx.yaml file:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: nginx
spec:
containers:
- name: nginx
image: nginx
ports:
- containerPort: 80
when I describe the pod there is one event: Successfully assigned busybox to up02 When I log in to the up02 and check to see if there are any images pulled I see it didn't get pulled so I pulled it manually (I thought maybe it needs some kick start ;) )
The pod will allways stay in the Container creating state. It's not only with this pod, the problem is with any pod I try to add.
There are some pods running on the machine which is necessary for Kubernetes to operate:
up#up01:~$ kubectl get pods --all-namespaces
NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
default busybox 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 11m
default nginx 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 22m
kube-system dummy-2088944543-n1cd5 1/1 Running 0 5d
kube-system etcd-up01 1/1 Running 0 5d
kube-system kube-apiserver-up01 1/1 Running 0 5d
kube-system kube-controller-manager-up01 1/1 Running 0 5d
kube-system kube-discovery-1769846148-xfpls 1/1 Running 0 5d
kube-system kube-dns-2924299975-5rzz8 4/4 Running 0 5d
kube-system kube-proxy-17bpl 1/1 Running 2 3d
kube-system kube-proxy-3pk63 1/1 Running 0 3d
kube-system kube-proxy-h3wrj 1/1 Running 0 5d
kube-system kube-proxy-wzqv4 1/1 Running 0 3d
kube-system kube-proxy-z3xxx 1/1 Running 0 3d
kube-system kube-scheduler-up01 1/1 Running 0 5d
kube-system kubernetes-dashboard-3203831700-3xfbd 1/1 Running 0 5d
kube-system weave-net-6c0nr 2/2 Running 0 3d
kube-system weave-net-dchhf 2/2 Running 0 5d
kube-system weave-net-hshvg 2/2 Running 4 3d
kube-system weave-net-n684c 2/2 Running 1 3d
kube-system weave-net-r5319 2/2 Running 0 3d

Answer 1

You can do
kubectl describe pods <pod>
to get more info on what's happening.

Answer 2

Can you recreate the nginx pod again in namespace kube-system?
kubectl create --namespace kube-system -f nginx.yaml
this should fix your problem.
Second, do you have proxy in your environment, take a look as well.

Answer 3

make sure that your namespace and service account information is correct. if you've configured your services or deployments to use a namespace or service account, that namespace needs to exist.
If you configured it to use a non - default service account then that has to exist as well, and the service account should be created after the namespace.
you shouldn't be necessarily using the kube system namespace. namespaces exist so there can be more than one of them and control the flow of traffic inside of a cluster.
you should also set potentially set permissions for your namespace. read this here.
https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/rbac/#service-account-permissions