# awx deployment failed in k3s cluster **URL:** \ **Category:** AWX Project\ **Tags:** awx, ee, kubernetes\ **Created:** [December 1, 2022, 11:44am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-deployment-failed-in-k3s-cluster/37407 "2022-12-01T11:44:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ahilan\_Swaminathan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/ahilan_swaminathan/32/4425_2.png) [@Ahilan\_Swaminathan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ahilan_Swaminathan)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2022, 11:44am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-deployment-failed-in-k3s-cluster/37407/1 "2022-12-01T11:44:06Z")
Hi Team When I try to deploy the awx in my k3s cluster, awx pod not started and failed to start and got “CrashLoopBackOff”. when I describe the pod I got the event as below. Events: Type Reason Age From Message * * * Normal Scheduled 39m default-scheduler Successfully assigned awx/awx-78ccbd4b9b-r7lsc to xl8phxc360awxtst Normal Pulled 39m kubelet Container image “[quay.io/ansible/awx-ee:latest](http://quay.io/ansible/awx-ee:latest)” already present on machine Normal Created 39m kubelet Created container init Normal Started 39m kubelet Started container init Normal Pulled 39m kubelet Container image “[docker.io/redis:7](http://docker.io/redis:7)” already present on machine Normal Created 39m kubelet Created container redis Normal Started 39m kubelet Started container redis Normal Pulled 39m kubelet Container image “[quay.io/ansible/awx:21.8.0](http://quay.io/ansible/awx:21.8.0)” already present on machine Normal Created 39m kubelet Created container awx-task Normal Started 39m kubelet Started container awx-task Normal Pulled 39m kubelet Container image “[quay.io/ansible/awx-ee:latest](http://quay.io/ansible/awx-ee:latest)” already present on machine Normal Created 39m kubelet Created container awx-ee Normal Started 39m kubelet Started container awx-ee Normal Created 38m (x3 over 39m) kubelet Created container awx-web Normal Started 38m (x3 over 39m) kubelet Started container awx-web Normal Pulled 37m (x4 over 39m) kubelet Container image “[quay.io/ansible/awx:21.8.0](http://quay.io/ansible/awx:21.8.0)” already present on machine **Warning BackOff 4m40s (x139 over 38m) kubelet Back-off restarting failed container** My awx status as below!!! [kubeadmin@xl8phxc360awxtst ~]$ kubectl -n awx get awx,all,ingress,secrets NAME AGE [awx.awx.ansible.com/awx](http://awx.awx.ansible.com/awx) 81m NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE pod/awx-operator-controller-manager-585df5d96d-hk2xs 2/2 Running 0 94m pod/awx-postgres-13-0 1/1 Running 0 47m **pod/awx-78ccbd4b9b-r7lsc 3/4 CrashLoopBackOff 12 (4m55s ago) 47m** NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE service/awx-operator-controller-manager-metrics-service ClusterIP xx.xx.xx.xx 8443/TCP 94m service/awx-postgres-13 ClusterIP None 5432/TCP 80m service/awx-service ClusterIP xx.xx.xx.xx 80/TCP 78m NAME READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE deployment.apps/awx-operator-controller-manager 1/1 1 1 94m deployment.apps/awx 0/1 1 0 78m NAME DESIRED CURRENT READY AGE replicaset.apps/awx-operator-controller-manager-585df5d96d 1 1 1 94m replicaset.apps/awx-78ccbd4b9b 1 1 0 78m NAME READY AGE statefulset.apps/awx-postgres-13 1/1 80m NAME CLASS HOSTS ADDRESS PORTS AGE [ingress.networking.k8s.io/awx-ingress](http://ingress.networking.k8s.io/awx-ingress) traefik [xl8phxc360awxtst.ipengine360s1.net](http://xl8phxc360awxtst.ipengine360s1.net) xx.xx.xx.xx 80, 443 78m NAME TYPE DATA AGE secret/awx-admin-password Opaque 1 81m secret/awx-postgres-configuration Opaque 6 81m secret/awx-secret-tls [kubernetes.io/tls](http://kubernetes.io/tls) 2 81m secret/redhat-operators-pull-secret Opaque 1 81m secret/awx-receptor-ca [kubernetes.io/tls](http://kubernetes.io/tls) 2 78m secret/awx-receptor-work-signing Opaque 2 78m secret/awx-app-credentials Opaque 3 78m secret/awx-secret-key Opaque 1 80m secret/awx-broadcast-websocket Opaque 1 80m [kubeadmin@xl8phxc360awxtst ~]$ Please suggest and hel;p me to resolve the issue ---
**Author:** ![AWX\_Project](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@AWX\_Project](https://forum.ansible.com/u/AWX_Project)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-deployment-failed-in-k3s-cluster/37407/2 "2022-12-02T18:24:27Z")
sounds like it could be due to insufficient resources to start the container. Does bumping available resources help get the pod started? take a look at this guide [https://komodor.com/learn/how-to-fix-crashloopbackoff-kubernetes-error/](https://komodor.com/learn/how-to-fix-crashloopbackoff-kubernetes-error/) AWX Team ---
**Author:** ![Ahilan\_Swaminathan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/ahilan_swaminathan/32/4425_2.png) [@Ahilan\_Swaminathan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ahilan_Swaminathan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 5:51am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-deployment-failed-in-k3s-cluster/37407/3 "2022-12-13T05:51:37Z")
Hi Team We have 12GB free RAM and our server having 8vcpu and we have enough free space in all filesystem including root. Not sure where/what we bump in resources. ---
**Author:** ![Wei-Yen\_Tan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/wei-yen_tan/32/4111_2.png) [@Wei-Yen\_Tan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Wei-Yen_Tan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 8:05am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-deployment-failed-in-k3s-cluster/37407/4 "2022-12-13T08:05:14Z")
Please describe the pod so we can see further errors ---
**Author:** ![Ahilan\_Swaminathan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/ahilan_swaminathan/32/4425_2.png) [@Ahilan\_Swaminathan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ahilan_Swaminathan)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-deployment-failed-in-k3s-cluster/37407/5 "2022-12-16T16:21:03Z")
Hi Yen Here attached output of pod describe and container status > **(attachments)** > > [pods\_containers\_details.txt](https://forum.ansible.com/uploads/short-url/AhCkJzgmURsK0hBjMG8i1JEEWLZ.txt) (15.2 KB) ---
**Author:** ![AWX\_Project](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@AWX\_Project](https://forum.ansible.com/u/AWX_Project)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 6:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-deployment-failed-in-k3s-cluster/37407/6 "2023-01-13T18:27:59Z")
Hi were you able to resolve this issue? If possible can you provide logging details emitted from the awx-web container (if it starts at all)? you can use tool like stern to aggregate all logs emitted from all pods in the awx namespace. With additional info we can probably help figure out the root cause to the crash backoff. Thanks! AWX Team