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How Does the Kubernetes Scheduler Actually Work?

From a pod sitting in Pending to finally running on a worker node—let's understand what happens behind the scenes of the Kubernetes Scheduler.

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Your pod is stuck in Pending. What’s happening?

Let’s say you’ve deployed an application, but when you check its status, you see:

STATUS: Pending

The pod hasn’t been assigned to a node yet.

This is where the Kubernetes scheduler comes into the picture.

Its job is to find a suitable node for every pod that needs scheduling.

But the scheduler does much more than simply pick a machine.

Let’s look at what happens behind the scenes.

1. The scheduling…

Written by DevOps voice

17+ years of IT professional experience, focused on DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE, and cloud engineering. Goal is simple to make complex concepts easy to understand

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