kubectl wait --for=condition=complete --timeout=30s

Question

I am trying to check the status of a pod using kubectl wait command through this documentation. Following is the command that i am trying

kubectl wait --for=condition=complete --timeout=30s -n d1 job/test-job1-oo-9j9kj 

Following is the error that i am getting

Kubectl error: status.conditions accessor error: Failure is of the type string, expected map[string]interface{} 

and my kubectl -o json output can be accessed via this github link.

Can someone help me to fix the issue

Answer 1

To wait until your pod is running, check for "condition=ready". In addition, prefer to filter by label, rather than specifying pod id. For example:

$ kubectl wait --for=condition=ready pod -l app=netshoot  pod/netshoot-58785d5fc7-xt6fg condition met 

Another option is rollout status - To wait until the deployment is done:

$ kubectl rollout status deployment netshoot deployment "netshoot" successfully rolled out 

Both options works great in automation scripts, when it is required to wait for an app to be installed. However, as @CallMeLaNN noted for the second option, deployment "rolled out" is not necessarily without errors.