Debugging

Debug a pod in CrashLoopBackoff

If we have a pod that is crash looping then it is exiting too quickly to spawn a shell inside the container. We can use oc debug to start a pod with that same image but instead of the image entrypoint we use /bin/sh instead.

$ oc debug misbehaving-pod-1
Defaulting container name to bad.
Use 'oc describe pod/misbehaving-pod-1' to see all of the containers in this pod.

Debugging with pod/misbehaving-pod-1, original command: <image entrypoint>
Waiting for pod to start ...
If you don't see a command prompt, try pressing enter.
/ $

Get a shell inside a pod

What if we want to get a shell inside of the container to debug?

oc run centos-debug-test --restart=Never --image=centos -- /usr/bin/sleep 1d

Lets make sure it successfully gets scheduled and started, look for Status: Running

oc describe pod centos-debug-test

Now we have a running pod, lets check it out:

oc exec -it centos-debug-test /bin/bash

Now lets delete the pod:

oc delete pod centos-debug-test