<p>Created Kubernetes cluster deployment with 3 Pods, and all are running fine, but when trying to run them cannot do it, tried doing curl the Ip (Internal)of the Pods in describe section i could see this error &quot;&quot; MountVolume.SetUp failed for volume &quot;default-token-twhht&quot; : failed to sync secret cache:</p>
<p>errors below:</p>
<pre><code>5m51s       Normal    RegisteredNode      node/ip-10-1-1-4                        Node ip-10-1-1-4 event: Registered Node ip-10-1-1-4 in Controller
57m         Normal    Scheduled           pod/nginx-deployment-585449566-9bqp7    Successfully assigned default/nginx-deployment-585449566-9bqp7 to ip-10-1-1-4
57m         Warning   FailedMount         pod/nginx-deployment-585449566-9bqp7    MountVolume.SetUp failed for volume &quot;default-token-twhht&quot; : failed to sync secret cache: timed out waiting for the condition
57m         Normal    Pulling             pod/nginx-deployment-585449566-9bqp7    Pulling image &quot;nginx:latest&quot;
56m         Normal    Pulled              pod/nginx-deployment-585449566-9bqp7    Successfully pulled image &quot;nginx:latest&quot; in 12.092210534s
56m         Normal    Created             pod/nginx-deployment-585449566-9bqp7    Created container nginx
56m         Normal    Started             pod/nginx-deployment-585449566-9bqp7    Started container nginx
57m         Normal    Scheduled           pod/nginx-deployment-585449566-9hlhz    Successfully assigned default/nginx-deployment-585449566-9hlhz to ip-10-1-1-4
57m         Warning   FailedMount         pod/nginx-deployment-585449566-9hlhz    MountVolume.SetUp failed for volume &quot;default-token-twhht&quot; : failed to sync secret cache: timed out waiting for the condition
57m         Normal    Pulling             pod/nginx-deployment-585449566-9hlhz    Pulling image &quot;nginx:latest&quot;
56m         Normal    Pulled              pod/nginx-deployment-585449566-9hlhz    Successfully pulled image &quot;nginx:latest&quot; in 15.127984291s
56m         Normal    Created             pod/nginx-deployment-585449566-9hlhz    Created container nginx
56m         Normal    Started             pod/nginx-deployment-585449566-9hlhz    Started container nginx
57m         Normal    Scheduled           pod/nginx-deployment-585449566-ffkwf    Successfully assigned default/nginx-deployment-585449566-ffkwf to ip-10-1-1-4
57m         Warning   FailedMount         pod/nginx-deployment-585449566-ffkwf    MountVolume.SetUp failed for volume &quot;default-token-twhht&quot; : failed to sync secret cache: timed out waiting for the condition
57m         Normal    Pulling             pod/nginx-deployment-585449566-ffkwf    Pulling image &quot;nginx:latest&quot;
56m         Normal    Pulled              pod/nginx-deployment-585449566-ffkwf    Successfully pulled image &quot;nginx:latest&quot; in 9.459864756s
56m         Normal    Created             pod/nginx-deployment-585449566-ffkwf    Created container nginx
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<p>You can add an additional RBAC role permission to your Pod's service account, reference <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/rbac/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">1</a> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/role-based-access-control#define-and-assign" rel="nofollow noreferrer">2</a> <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/node/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">3</a>.</p>
<p>Assure as well that you have the workload identity set up, reference <a href="https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/workload-identity#enable_on_cluster" rel="nofollow noreferrer">4</a>.</p>
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<p>This can also happen when apiserver is on high load, you could have more smaller nodes to spread your pods and increase your resource requests.</p>
