OpenShift - View Pod events using oc describe or oc get

by
Jeremy Canfield |
Updated: July 28 2022
| OpenShift articles
If you are not familiar with the oc command, refer to OpenShift - Getting Started with the oc command.
A pod runs on a node. Before issuing the oc describe pod command, issue the oc login command. The oc get pods command will return the list of pods in your selected project, like this.
oc get pods
. . .
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
mypod001 1/1 Running 0 8d
mypod002 1/1 Running 0 8d
mypod003 1/1 Running 0 8d
The oc describe pod/<pod name> command can be used to display the pod events. In this example, the events for mypod001 will be displayed.
oc describe pod/mypod001
Something like this should be returned.
Events:
Type Reason Age From Message
---- ------ ---- ---- -------
Normal Scheduled 3m default-scheduler Successfully assigned project001/mypod001-1-build to os.example.com
Normal Pulling 3m kubelet, os.example.com pulling image "repo.example.com/openshift/images:v3.11.219"
Normal Pulled 3m kubelet, os.example.com Successfully pulled image "repo.example.com/openshift/images:v3.11.219"
Normal Created 3m kubelet, os.example.com Created container
Normal Started 3m kubelet, os.example.com Started container
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