A pod is stuck in Pending. 'kubectl describe pod' shows 'Insufficient cpu'. What is the correct first action?
- A Restart the kubelet
- B Lower the pod's CPU request, or scale the node pool / enable the cluster autoscaler (correct answer)
- C Delete and recreate the deployment
- D Increase the pod's CPU limit
Shortcut: Pending with Insufficient cpu means no node can satisfy the pod's CPU request. Either the request is oversized relative to node capacity, or the cluster needs more nodes. Raising the limit makes it worse.