pinniped pods are in crashloop state

Products

• VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Management

Issue/Introduction

• goreplicaset pinniped-concierge/pinniped-concierge is missing owner

Environment

2.5.4

Cause

A stale or orphaned ReplicaSet exists for the pinniped-concierge application that is missing the required ownerReferences metadata linking it back to the parent Deployment.

Resolution

1. Create a backup of the current deployment configuration.
   kubectl get deployment -n pinniped-concierge pinniped-concierge -o yaml > pinniped-concierge-deployment-backup.yaml
   
   
2. Scale Down the Deployment
   kubectl scale deployment pinniped-concierge --replicas=0 -n pinniped-concierge
   
   
3. Check the status of the new Pods and ReplicaSets
   kubectl get pods -n pinniped-concierge
kubectl get rs -n pinniped-concierge
4. Clean Up Old ReplicaSets
   kubectl delete rs <old-rs-name> -n pinniped-concierge
   
   
5. Scale Up the Deployment
   kubectl scale deployment pinniped-concierge --replicas=2 -n pinniped-concierge