Kafka Pod Pending

[northboys]

Hii, i got error

Normal   Scheduled    14m                default-scheduler  Successfully assigned kafka/my-cluster-kafka-1 to xxxx
  Warning  FailedMount  12m                kubelet            Unable to attach or mount volumes: unmounted volumes=[data], unattached volumes=[broker-certs strimzi-tmp rack-volume data ready-files kube-api-access-77n6m cluster-ca client-ca-cert kafka-metrics-and-logging]: timed out waiting for the condition
  Warning  FailedMount  9m51s              kubelet            Unable to attach or mount volumes: unmounted volumes=[data], unattached volumes=[cluster-ca data broker-certs kafka-metrics-and-logging strimzi-tmp client-ca-cert rack-volume kube-api-access-77n6m ready-files]: timed out waiting for the condition
  Warning  FailedMount  7m36s              kubelet            Unable to attach or mount volumes: unmounted volumes=[data], unattached volumes=[rack-volume kube-api-access-77n6m cluster-ca broker-certs strimzi-tmp data client-ca-cert kafka-metrics-and-logging ready-files]: timed out waiting for the condition
  Warning  FailedMount  5m19s              kubelet            Unable to attach or mount volumes: unmounted volumes=[data], unattached volumes=[kafka-metrics-and-logging rack-volume kube-api-access-77n6m strimzi-tmp cluster-ca ready-files broker-certs client-ca-cert data]: timed out waiting for the condition
  Warning  FailedMount  3m2s               kubelet            Unable to attach or mount volumes: unmounted volumes=[data], unattached volumes=[kube-api-access-77n6m broker-certs rack-volume data strimzi-tmp cluster-ca kafka-metrics-and-logging client-ca-cert ready-files]: timed out waiting for the condition
  Warning  FailedMount  96s (x7 over 13m)  kubelet            MountVolume.MountDevice failed for volume "pvc-877dfa8f-18b8-4dcc-ae22-36a401d2d7fe" : rpc error: code = InvalidArgument desc = volume pvc-877dfa8f-18b8-4dcc-ae22-36a401d2d7fe hasn't been attached yet
  Warning  FailedMount  47s                kubelet            Unable to attach or mount volumes: unmounted volumes=[data], unattached volumes=[rack-volume kube-api-access-77n6m data ready-files client-ca-cert strimzi-tmp cluster-ca broker-certs kafka-metrics-and-logging]: timed out waiting for the condition

How to fix it?

• Strimzi kafka v0.28.0
• Kubernetes v1.21.2

[scholzj]

Well, the errors kind of explain it. Kubernetes cannot attach the data volume which is the PVC/PV disk. This is Kubernetes responsibility -> so you would need to check the Kubernetes logs if it gives you some more details I'm afraid.