kubectl status.phase=Running return wrong results

When I run:

kubectl get pods --field-selector=status.phase=Running

I see:

NAME          READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
k8s-fbd7b     2/2     Running   0          5m5s
testm-45gfg   1/2     Error     0          22h

I don't understand why this command gives me pod that are in Error status? According to K8S api, there is no such thing STATUS=Error.

How can I get only the pods that are in this Error status?

When I run:

kubectl get pods --field-selector=status.phase=Failed

It tells me that there are no pods in that status.

Solution

You can simply grep the Error pods using the

kubectl get pods --all-namespces | grep Error

Remove all error pods from the cluster

kubectl delete pod `kubectl get pods --namespace <yournamespace> | awk '$3 == "Error" {print $1}'` --namespace <yournamespace>

Mostly Pod failures return explicit error states that can be observed in the status field

Error :

Your pod is crashed, it was able to schedule on node successfully but crashed after that. To debug it more you can use different methods or commands

kubectl describe pod <Pod name > -n <Namespace>