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Determining the Reason for Pod Failure

You are a container engineer at Cube4Lyf, an e-gaming platform geared towards puzzle and logic games. One of the pods running a newly launched game is failing. You need to identify the error causing the pod to fail and to extract the error for the logging agent to pick up so the developers, who don't have access to this environment, can view the error and create a patch.

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Level
Intermediate
Last updated
Sep 15, 2025
Duration
45m

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  1. Challenge

    Investigate the failed pod

    The pod puzzle-plaza is in a nonworking state. Using your Kubernetes troubleshooting tools, idenitify the error message.

  2. Challenge

    Filter and write the error message to a file.

    The devs behing puzzle-plaza don't have access to this environment, but need to see the error message. Extract only the error message and write it to an error.log file at the root directory of the lab vm.

    hint: the go template for this is kubectl get pod puzzle-plaza -o go-template="{{range .status.containerStatuses}}{{.lastState.terminated.message}}{{end}}"

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