jargon

Platform & DevOps·Placement, resources and the pod lifecycle

the deploy has been sitting at pending for twenty minutes with no error, because no node satisfies every constraint you set.

Unschedulable workload

Also calledpending pod, unschedulable pod, no nodes available

A workload the scheduler cannot place, left waiting rather than failed. The scheduler's own event explains why in one line — insufficient memory, no matching label, untolerated taint, unsatisfiable anti-affinity — and reading it is invariably faster than reasoning about it. It is the most common form of 'the deploy is stuck', and it looks like nothing is happening because, precisely, nothing is.

Commonly confused with