# Pod Scheduling Readiness — Usage example

> To mark a Pod not-ready for scheduling, you can create it with one or more scheduling gates like this After the Pod's creation, you can check its state using Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```bash kubectl get pod test-pod ``` The output reveals it's in Scheduling

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To mark a Pod not-ready for scheduling, you can create it with one or more scheduling gates like this

After the Pod's creation, you can check its state using

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```bash
kubectl get pod test-pod
```

The output reveals it's in SchedulingGated state

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```none
NAME       READY   STATUS            RESTARTS   AGE
test-pod   0/1     SchedulingGated   0          7s
```

You can also check its schedulingGates field by running

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```bash
kubectl get pod test-pod -o jsonpath='{.spec.schedulingGates}'
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```none
[{"name":"example.com/foo"},{"name":"example.com/bar"}]
```

To inform scheduler this Pod is ready for scheduling, you can remove its schedulingGates entirely by reapplying a modified manifest

You can check if the schedulingGates is cleared by running

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```bash
kubectl get pod test-pod -o jsonpath='{.spec.schedulingGates}'
```

The output is expected to be empty. And you can check its latest status by running

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```bash
kubectl get pod test-pod -o wide
```

Given the test-pod doesn't request any CPU/memory resources, it's expected that this Pod's state get transited from previous SchedulingGated to Running

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```none
NAME       READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE   IP         NODE
test-pod   1/1     Running   0          15s   10.0.0.4   node-2
```

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