Revive inactive OpenShift pods that scaled to zero

Learning path | 2 resources | 10 mins | Published on November 13, 2024
Don Schenck

This learning path demonstrates how to revive inactive pods in your sandbox that have scaled to zero.

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Overview: Revive inactive OpenShift pods that scaled to zero

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When using Red Hat OpenShift as an application development platform to orchestrate your containers, you will deal a lot with pods. Pods are resources in Kubernetes and OpenShift that logically host one or more containers, serving as a logical wrapper. 

One of the most basic aspects of pods is starting and stopping them, along with specifying how many replicas (copies) to run at once. This learning path focuses on reviving pods in our 30-day, no-cost Developer Sandbox for Red Hat OpenShift, since pods in these clusters automatically stop (or scale to zero) after 12 hours.

Special note about Serverless objects: You don’t need to do anything to scale Serverless objects. By design, they will scale up as needed and return to zero pods when not needed.

Prerequisites:

In this learning path, you will:

  • Revive your pod to 1 running instance.