/plushcap/analysis/spacelift/crashloopbackoff

Troubleshoot and Fix Kubernetes CrashLoopBackoff Status

What's this blog post about?

The CrashLoopBackoff error in Kubernetes (K8S) occurs when a pod has crashed and attempted to restart multiple times. This is due to the K8S kubelet waiting an increasing 'backoff' time between crashes before attempting to start the pod again, with a maximum of 5 minutes starting at 10 seconds. The error can be fixed by troubleshooting using commands like kubectl describe pod and kubectl logs. Common causes include misconfiguration, out of memory or resources, port conflicts, connection issues, and incorrect environment variables.

Company
Spacelift

Date published
Nov. 2, 2022

Author(s)
Jack Roper

Word count
1062

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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