Windows debugging tips — Node-level troubleshooting

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). My Pods are stuck at "Container Creating" or restarting over and over Ensure that your pause image is compatible with your Windows OS version. See Pause container to see the latest / recommended pause image and/or get more information. If using containerd as your container runtime the pause image is specified in the plugins.plugins.cri.sandbox_image field of the of config.toml configuration file. My pods show status as ErrImgPull or ImagePullBackOff Ensure that your Pod is getting scheduled to a compatible Windows Node. More information on how to specify a compatible node for your Pod can be found in this guide. Attribution: Adapted from Kubernetes Documentation under CC-BY-4.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, removed long code blocks, and shortened it for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.