Simon Krenger

So in any larger container orchestrator installation, be it Kubernetes or OpenShift, you will encounter pods that crash regularly and enter the “CrashLoopBackOff” status.

$ oc get pod --all-namespaces 
NAMESPACE         NAME                       READY     STATUS             RESTARTS   AGE
[..]
my-project-1      helloworld-11-9w3ud        1/1       Running            0          7h
my-project-2      myapp-simon-43-7macd       0/1       CrashLoopBackOff   3774       9h

Note the container that has status “CrashLoopBackOff” and 3774 restarts.