I'#m trying to get a pod running on GCE. The pod has an init container, and is created by me applying a manifest with a deployment that creates 1 replica of the pod.

When I look at my workloads on the cloud console, I can see that under 'Active revisions' my deployment is in the state of 'Pods are pending', and under 'Managed pods', the status is 'PodsInitializing'.

The container logs are empty, and the audit logs contain a single entry for the creation of the deployment.

My pods seem to be stuck in the above state, and I'm not really sure why. How do I go about debugging that?

Edit:

kubectl get pods --namespace=my-namespace

Outputs:

NAME                        READY     STATUS     RESTARTS   AGE
my-pod-v77jm                0/1       Init:0/1   0          55m

But when I run:

kubectl describe pod my-pod-v77jm

I get

Error from server (NotFound): pods "my-pod-v77jm" not found