<p>When I try to run my elasticsearch container through kubernetes deployments, my elasticsearch pod fails after some time, While it runs perfectly fine when directly run as docker container using docker-compose or Dockerfile. This is what I get as a result of <code>kubectl get pods</code></p>
<pre><code>NAME                  READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
es-764bd45bb6-w4ckn   0/1       Error     4          3m
</code></pre>
<p>below is the result of <code>kubectl describe pod</code></p>
<pre><code>Name:           es-764bd45bb6-w4ckn
Namespace:      default
Node:           administrator-thinkpad-l480/&lt;node_ip&gt;
Start Time:     Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:38:08 +0530
Labels:         io.kompose.service=es
            pod-template-hash=3206801662
Annotations:    &lt;none&gt; 
Status:         Running
IP:             10.32.0.8
Controlled By:  ReplicaSet/es-764bd45bb6
Containers:
es:
Container ID:   docker://9be2f7d6eb5d7793908852423716152b8cefa22ee2bb06fbbe69faee6f6aa3c3
Image:          docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:6.2.4
Image ID:       docker-pullable://docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch@sha256:9ae20c753f18e27d1dd167b8675ba95de20b1f1ae5999aae5077fa2daf38919e
Port:           9200/TCP
State:          Waiting
  Reason:       CrashLoopBackOff
Last State:     Terminated
  Reason:       Error
  Exit Code:    78
  Started:      Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:42:56 +0530
  Finished:     Thu, 30 Aug 2018 16:43:07 +0530
Ready:          False
Restart Count:  5
Environment:
  ELASTICSEARCH_ADVERTISED_HOST_NAME:  es
  ES_JAVA_OPTS:                        -Xms2g -Xmx2g
  ES_HEAP_SIZE:                        2GB
Mounts:
  /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount from default-token-nhb9z (ro)
Conditions:
  Type              Status
  Initialized       True 
  Ready             False 
  ContainersReady   False 
  PodScheduled      True 
Volumes:
  default-token-nhb9z:
    Type:        Secret (a volume populated by a Secret)
    SecretName:  default-token-nhb9z
    Optional:    false
QoS Class:       BestEffort
Node-Selectors:  &lt;none&gt;
Tolerations:     node.kubernetes.io/not-ready:NoExecute for 300s
             node.kubernetes.io/unreachable:NoExecute for 300s
Events:
  Type     Reason     Age               From           Message
  ----     ------     ----              ----           -------
 Normal   Scheduled  6m                default-scheduler                     Successfully assigned default/es-764bd45bb6-w4ckn to administrator-thinkpad-l480
 Normal   Pulled     3m (x5 over 6m)   kubelet, administrator-thinkpad-l480  Container image &quot;docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:6.2.4&quot; already present on machine
 Normal   Created    3m (x5 over 6m)   kubelet, administrator-thinkpad-l480  Created container
 Normal   Started    3m (x5 over 6m)   kubelet, administrator-thinkpad-l480  Started container
 Warning  BackOff    1m (x15 over 5m)  kubelet, administrator-thinkpad-l480  Back-off restarting failed container
</code></pre>
<p>Here is my elasticsearc-deployment.yaml:</p>
<pre class="lang-yaml prettyprint-override"><code>apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  annotations:
    kompose.cmd: kompose convert
    kompose.version: 1.1.0 (36652f6)
  creationTimestamp: null
  labels:
    io.kompose.service: es
  name: es
spec:
  replicas: 1
  strategy: {}
  template:
    metadata:
      creationTimestamp: null
      labels:
        io.kompose.service: es
    spec:
      containers:
      - env:
        - name: ELASTICSEARCH_ADVERTISED_HOST_NAME
          value: es
        - name: ES_JAVA_OPTS
          value: -Xms2g -Xmx2g
        - name: ES_HEAP_SIZE
          value: 2GB
        image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:6.2.4
        name: es
        ports:
        - containerPort: 9200
        resources: {}
      restartPolicy: Always
 status: {}
</code></pre>
<p>When i try to get logs using <code>kubectl logs -f es-764bd45bb6-w4ckn</code>, I get</p>
<pre><code>Error from server: Get https://&lt;slave node ip&gt;:10250/containerLogs/default/es-764bd45bb6-w4ckn/es?previous=true: dial tcp &lt;slave node ip&gt;:10250: i/o timeout 
</code></pre>
<p>What could be the reason and solution for this problem ?</p>

Lakshya Garg
<p>I had the same problem, there can be couple of reasons for this issue. In my case the jar file was missing. @Lakshya has already answered this problem, I would like to add the steps that you can take to troubleshoot it. </p>

<ol>
<li>Get the pod status, Command - <strong>kubectl get pods</strong> </li>
<li>Describe pod to have further look - <strong>kubectl describe pod "pod-name"</strong>
The last few lines of output gives you events and where your deployment failed </li>
<li>Get logs for more details - <strong>kubectl logs "pod-name"</strong></li>
<li>Get container logs - <strong>kubectl logs "pod-name" -c "container-name"</strong>
Get the container name from the output of describe pod command </li>
</ol>

<p>If your container is up, you can use the <strong>kubectl exec -it</strong> command to further analyse the container </p>

<p>Hope it helps community members in future issues. </p>
