Workloads

Workloads lists everything that runs pods, whatever its kind, so a failing Job and a degraded Deployment sort to the top together. Open it from the sidebar, with G then W, or with ⌘2 in the desktop app (Ctrl2 on Windows and Linux).

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What’s in the list

Every Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSet and CronJob, plus the Jobs, ReplicaSets and pods that nothing manages. Objects that only exist to run another are left out, so each workload appears once: the ReplicaSets a Deployment runs, and the Jobs a CronJob starts. You can still open any of them from the command palette (⌘K), and every pod links to what controls it. Lists sort by status first, the most urgent at the top. Click any column to sort by it instead.

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One kind at a time

The tabs above the list show each kind on its own, with a count, and with the columns that matter for that kind: ReplicaSets and HorizontalPodAutoscalers have lists of their own too. They aren’t in the sidebar, so find them by name in the command palette.

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Narrow it down

• Health. The chips above the list (Failing, Warning, In progress, Healthy, Inactive) show only workloads in that state. Pick several to combine them.
• Filter. Press / and type. Filter workloads matches names, namespaces, kinds, labels written as key=value, and images, so nginx:1.27 finds everything running that image.
• Label selector. Type a selector like app=web,tier!=cache and press ↵. The cluster does the filtering, which helps in big clusters.

More in Finding things.

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Open a workload

Click a row, or move to it with ↑ ↓ and press ↵. Its details open next to the list.

• Overview has its replicas (wanted, updated and available), update strategy and selector, the images in its pod template, its conditions, labels and annotations.
• Pods lists the pods it runs, failing ones first.
• Logs streams every pod’s logs, merged in the order they were written. See Logs.
• Metrics charts its CPU and memory over time against its requests and limits. See Usage history.
• Events and YAML, as for any object.

The panel is described in full in Object details.

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Act on it

The common actions are buttons in the panel, and the rest are under ⋯ (or press .): scale, restart, change images, roll back, pause a rollout, run a CronJob now, suspend or resume. Right-click a row for the same actions without opening it. To act on several at once, pick rows with X or Shift-click, and choose from the bar that appears. Restart, suspend, resume and delete work across kinds.