Section 2.1 Issue with manually deleting Docker container

[nick-symon]

This section begins by creating a pod with restart=Never flag
$ kubectl run hello-kiamol --image=kiamol/ch02-hello-kiamol --restart=Never

Then we are instructed to manually delete the container in the pod
$ docker container rm -f $(docker container ls -q --filter label=io.kubernetes.container.name=hello-kiamol)

Then the chapter indicates that the pod should automatically re-scale the pod after it is deleted. However, this does not happen

$ kubectl get pod hello-kiamol                                                                                       
NAME           READY   STATUS                   RESTARTS   AGE
hello-kiamol   0/1     ContainerStatusUnknown   1          7m18s

The subsequent exercises in this chapter can't be run because the container is not running. While I'm not certain, I imagine that run the pod with the restart=Never option prevents the container from restarting after deletion, although I'm not 100% certain on this.

Is this an error or due to a change in k8s version? Frankly an issue this early on makes me want to consider using another resource to learn k8s

[jaoxford]

Also happened to me and my colleague.

His solution was to destroy the pod, restart everything from docker-desktop, and then to skip this exercise.

[jaoxford]

Destroy the pod with kubectl delete pod hello-kiamol

Then you can re-run the pod and skip that exercise.

[Jaafar-Nasrallah]

The following two options work.

1. Delete the pod, then rerun and continue
2. run it from the beginning without --restart=Never, then if works as well