No HiveMQ pods are spawned

 Problem

Deploying a HiveMQ cluster from the hivemq-operator Helm chart to a Kubernetes cluster:

Checking if all expected pods are spawned:

shows only the hivemq-operator pod:

Problem is how to troubleshoot this.

 Solution

1. Describe the replicaSets:

   you see hivemq-operator and hivemq-cluster's replicaSets:

2. Get detained information from the hivemq-cluster's replicaSet:

3. Search for any errors in the conditions: section. The error message will indicate why the creation of the hivemq-cluster pod has failed:
   *This is an example error:

4. Now you can fix the error and retry the helm upgrade.

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