Pod status not ready always - kubernetes

Question

I'm setting a small kubernetes cluster.

When I execute the command 

kubectl get pods

NAME          READY     STATUS                                         RESTARTS   AGE
site2-zecnf   0/1       Image: site-img is ready, container is creating    0      12m

The pod stays in not ready state forever. I tried killing the pod and restarting and then sometimes it works fine. but i'm sure this is not the normal behaviour, whats going wrong?

Answer 1

I was having the same issue.

In the yaml files describing the Replication Controllers, I was using keyring: in the volume section:

keyring: "ceph.client.admin.keyring" 

After I generated a Ceph secret and changed the yaml files to use secretRef:

secretRef:
  name: "ceph-secret"

Kubernetes was able to map and mount the Ceph volumes and the pods began to start normally. I don't know why using keyring: doesn't work in this case.