CKA v1.35 · Troubleshooting (30% — the heaviest domain in the exam) → "Troubleshoot cluster components" Target time: 10 minutes
New pods are being created but none of them ever start — they sit in
Pending with no node assigned. Existing pods are fine.
Namespace sched-test has Deployment probe (2 replicas) stuck this way.
Find the broken control-plane component, repair it IN PLACE (do not
recreate the cluster or the component from scratch), and get probe to
2/2 Running.
Node shell: docker exec -it muscle-control-plane bash