EKS Cluster with Fargate type Pod going to Pending state

Question

I have an EKS Cluster with Fargate type and I want to spin Jaeger all in one image in the pod using the declarative yaml configuration but whenever I create a deployment the pod goes to **Pending** state so I ran describe pod command  and I get below output

```
Name:             jaeger-6ffb9947dd-jv8kj
Namespace:        telemetry
Priority:         0
Service Account:  default
Node:             
Labels:           app=jaeger
                  pod-template-hash=6ffb9947dd
Annotations:      
Status:           Pending
IP:
IPs:              
Controlled By:    ReplicaSet/jaeger-6ffb9947dd
Containers:
  jaeger:
    Image:        jaegertracing/all-in-one:latest
    Port:         16686/TCP
    Host Port:    0/TCP
    Environment:  
    Mounts:
      /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount from kube-api-access-5prvf (ro)
Conditions:
  Type           Status
  PodScheduled   False
Volumes:
  kube-api-access-5prvf:
    Type:                    Projected (a volume that contains injected data from multiple sources)
    TokenExpirationSeconds:  3607
    ConfigMapName:           kube-root-ca.crt
    ConfigMapOptional:       
    DownwardAPI:             true
QoS Class:                   BestEffort
Node-Selectors:              
Tolerations:                 eks.amazonaws.com/compute-type=fargate:NoSchedule
                             node.kubernetes.io/not-ready:NoExecute op=Exists for 300s
                             node.kubernetes.io/unreachable:NoExecute op=Exists for 300s
Events:
  Type     Reason            Age   From               Message
  ----     ------            ----  ----               -------
  Warning  FailedScheduling  59s   default-scheduler  0/8 nodes are available: 8 Too many pods. preemption: 0/8 nodes are available: 8 No preemption victims found for incoming pod.
```

**namespace.yaml**

```
apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: telemetry
```

**jaeger-deployment.yaml**

```
# jaeger-deployment.yaml

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: jaeger
  namespace: telemetry
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: jaeger
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: jaeger
    spec:
      tolerations:
      - key: "eks.amazonaws.com/compute-type"
        operator: "Equal"
        value: "fargate"
        effect: "NoSchedule"
      containers:
      - name: jaeger
        image: jaegertracing/all-in-one:latest
        ports:
        - containerPort: 16686

---

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: jaeger
  namespace: telemetry
spec:
  selector:
    app: jaeger
  ports:
    - protocol: TCP
      port: 80
      targetPort: 16686
```

command "kubectl describe quota -n telemetry" gives below output

```
No resources found in telemetry namespace.
```

How do I make my pods running? 
What are the steps to resolve the same.

Accepted Answer

This was resolved by creating a fargate profile in EKS Cluster under the namespace telemetry with label app=jaeger.

So if you want to run a pod in fragate then you need to create a fargate profile and mention the same key value pair label which you mentioned in your deployment.

Below lines from AWS documentation link https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/fargate.html#fargate-considerations

> Pods must match a Fargate profile at the time that they're scheduled to run on Fargate. Pods that don't match a Fargate profile might be stuck as Pending. If a matching Fargate profile exists, you can delete pending Pods that you have created to reschedule them onto Fargate.

Answer

Check the resource utilization on your nodes. It's possible that the nodes are running out of resources such as CPU or memory. Use tools like `kubectl top nodes `to view resource usage.

Answer

How did you configure your Fargate Profile ? seems your deployment is not targeting Fargate but Your EC2 nodes which are out of capacity.

You can look at this section of eksworkshop that explain how enabling and targeting Fargate to schedule EKS Pods : https://www.eksworkshop.com/docs/fundamentals/fargate/enabling

Answer

https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/eks-resolve-pending-fargate-pods Probably one of this would help you.

EKS Cluster with Fargate type Pod going to Pending state

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