Kodekloud Challenge #1 issue with creating the pod - issue with command

Sebastian-Fischer · February 9, 2023, 8:58am

Hi,
After 4 times trying to finish this challenge and always failing on the above bug, I found out that the pvc binding is always failing for me (even if it is shown green) when the storageClassName is not set to local-storage.

This information is missing above and on the GitHub repository.

Ayman · February 19, 2023, 12:29pm

Hello @Sebastian-Fischer,
Thanks for highlighting this to us
I will forward your request to the KK team.

boy1 · February 25, 2023, 8:20pm

I ran into the same issue today. I tried to delete the pvc and pod and use the solution files from GitHub but then the pv got deleted. Frustrating. Thank you for looking into this, these challenges are great to practise on!

mmkmou · February 26, 2023, 12:31am

Hi @boy1,

Just testing the lab and it works fine. Can you please try again and follow the instructions step by step?

boy1 · February 26, 2023, 4:28pm

Bonjour @mmkmou !

Merci for testing.
I tried the lab twice more (once I accidentally got the pvc incorrect and couldn’t delete the pv so got stuck again). The third time was the charm because by then I could do it flawlessly. It seems to work unless you have to try multiple times because, you know, you’re still learning…
Maybe it happens when you delete and recreate the pod and run the command twice?
Anyway, for others trying this out, it’s probably best to stop trying and just reset the environment once you mess up the pvc or you see that ruby error.

Cheers,
Boy

mmkmou · February 26, 2023, 6:30pm

Hi @boy
As the PV is already claimed you have two options :

Remove it and recreate it as it was
try to unclaim it by patching the PV see the following discussion
Need to know how I can 'unclaim' a PVC once it's been attached to a PV

Regard

Carim-Manzur · March 1, 2023, 6:14pm

Hello! It would be great to “understand” the problem.

I think the real problem is that the /site directory needs to be cleaned, so the solution will be:
1- Delete the full directory on the k8s node with rm -rf /site
2- Delete the pod, pvc and pv
3- Create pv, pvc and pod

George-Miscalencu · April 3, 2023, 9:45pm

This is so damn frustrating.

hpeters · May 12, 2023, 8:42am

klein.joshua.a:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  labels:
    run: jekyll
  name: jekyll
  namespace: development
spec:
  initContainers:
  - name: copy-jekyll-site
    image: kodekloud/jekyll
    command: 
     -  jekyll
     -  new
     -  /site
    volumeMounts:
     - mountPath: "/site"
       name: site
  containers:
  - image: kodekloud/jekyll-serve
    name: jekyll
    resources: {}
    volumeMounts:
     - mountPath: "/site"
       name: site
  dnsPolicy: ClusterFirst
  restartPolicy: Always
  volumes:
   - name: site
     persistentVolumeClaim:
       claimName: jekyll-site
status: {}

I have the same issue, with the above yaml

mmkmou · May 13, 2023, 9:55pm

Hi @hpeters,

How did you configure your PVC?

DVS_Dee · May 20, 2023, 3:42pm

Same issue here as described by OP.

raghumanne · July 27, 2023, 9:04am

First see if the pv and pvc are properly up and bounded.
I observed even though the command: [ "jekyll", "new", "/site" ] is fine, the check won’t pass until the command is executed.

jdomm95 · September 18, 2023, 10:14pm

I had the same issue as above. I waited a good 20 minutes and the pod never finished. As recommended, I reset the lab and tried the git source and it worked! But my yaml’s were the same as the git ones. I am wondering if the issue is caused if you create a pod with something incorrect, then delete the pod, fix the problem and create the pod again. That is the only thing different in me doing it myself and when I did it with the git source after resetting the lab. Just a suggestion for kk to look into to see why so many people are getting this issue, even after waiting 2 minutes for the pod to start up.

tsanghan · September 20, 2023, 6:58am

@jdomm95 ,

There is NO issue with the lab.

Alistair_KodeKloud · September 20, 2023, 7:16am

Occasionally this pod does fail to come up. Nobody has determined exactly why yet. Normally reset the lab and try again (copy the manifest you created to a notepad first to save time)