Lab 3.3: Finish Cluster Setup - Worker node is at NotReady state

imed

The worker node is at NotReady state

get pods

Describe on pod calico-node-6f5nn (status: Init:0/3) only events.

on worker node : journalctl -xeu kubelet

This is using GCP VMs.
Has anybody been exposed to this situation or knows how to make the worker node reaches the Ready state. I am kinda out of ideas here?

Thanks.

chrispokorni

Hi @imed,

Are the GCE instances, VPC network, and firewall provisioned according to the instructions from the video guide found in Chapter 1? It seems that the inter-node communication is not configured as expected by the cluster's networking components.

Regards,
-Chris

imed

Hi Chris,
I made sure the firewall is configured the way mentioned in the video. The difference i have though was on OS level. I was using ubuntu 20.04
I will be recreating my nodes to match the lab spec and update this thread.

Cheers,
Imed.

chrispokorni

The latest release of the course recommends Ubuntu 20.04, so that should not be the issue.

Regards,
-Chris

imed

The issue was related to the firewall rule. Had to redo all the steps. Thanks @chrispokorni for the help.

Cheers,
Imed