--- title: HolmesGPT + Azure AI Foundry: A Quick Kubernetes... description: A hands-on walkthrough of using HolmesGPT with Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI to diagnose a deliberately broken Kubernetes pod. The setup uses a local kind... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/holmesgpt-azure-ai-foundry-a-quick-kubernetes-troubleshooting-demo-azj7wckqu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: HolmesGPT + Azure AI Foundry: A Quick Kubernetes Troubleshooting Demo | daily.dev og:description: A hands-on walkthrough of using HolmesGPT with Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI to diagnose a deliberately broken Kubernetes pod. 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HolmesGPT autonomously investigates the cluster state, reads events, checks nodes, identifies the root cause, and suggests concrete fixes — either removing the nodeSelector or labeling the node. The post highlights how AI-assisted troubleshooting can reduce the manual kubectl command-chaining typically needed to diagnose Kubernetes scheduling issues. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I connect HolmesGPT to an Azure OpenAI deployment through Azure AI Foundry? Export AZURE_API_KEY, AZURE_API_BASE, AZURE_API_VERSION, and AZURE_DEPLOYMENT_NAME from the Azure portal's endpoints and keys section, then run holmes ask with --model set to azure/$AZURE_DEPLOYMENT_NAME. HolmesGPT uses this to authenticate against your Azure OpenAI deployment and reason over live Kubernetes cluster state rather than just answering from a prompt. _daily.dev surfaces practical walkthroughs like this for teams wiring AI agents into their Kubernetes workflows._ ### Why is my Kubernetes pod stuck in Pending state with no logs? A pod with no logs stuck in Pending usually means it was never scheduled onto a node, often because of a nodeSelector that does not match any node's labels. Checking scheduler events reveals a node affinity or selector mismatch; fixing it means either removing the nodeSelector from the pod spec or labeling a node to satisfy it. _Developers debugging scheduling failures can compare notes on Kubernetes troubleshooting patterns via daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [HolmesGPT: Agentic troubleshooting built for the cloud native era](https://daily.dev/posts/holmesgpt-agentic-troubleshooting-built-for-the-cloud-native-era-4uijutrip) · CNCF · 3 upvotes · 0 comments - [K8sGPT and the Guardrails for AI-Assisted Kubernetes Troubleshooting](https://daily.dev/posts/k8sgpt-and-the-guardrails-for-ai-assisted-kubernetes-troubleshooting-tgork0fwl) · Cloud Native Now · 4 upvotes · 1 comments - [Can An AI Agent Debug Kubernetes? I Broke A Cluster To Find Out](https://daily.dev/posts/can-an-ai-agent-debug-kubernetes-i-broke-a-cluster-to-find-out-lpg5q9gwr) · marmelab · 9 upvotes · 0 comments - [Auto-Verifying Your AI-SRE’s Fixes \(Part II\): HolmesGPT End-to-End on a Real Cluster](https://daily.dev/posts/auto-verifying-your-ai-sre-s-fixes-part-ii-holmesgpt-end-to-end-on-a-real-cluster-tadh2q8bw) · MetalBear · 4 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#kubernetes](https://daily.dev/tags/kubernetes), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#observability](https://daily.dev/tags/observability) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/holmesgpt-azure-ai-foundry-a-quick-kubernetes-troubleshooting-demo-azj7wckqu) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"HolmesGPT + Azure AI Foundry: A Quick Kubernetes Troubleshooting Demo","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/holmesgpt-azure-ai-foundry-a-quick-kubernetes-troubleshooting-demo-azj7wckqu","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/holmesgpt-azure-ai-foundry-a-quick-kubernetes-troubleshooting-demo-azj7wckqu"},"datePublished":"2026-07-16T14:06:31.173Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T06:12:41.074Z","description":"A hands-on walkthrough of using HolmesGPT with Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI to diagnose a deliberately broken Kubernetes pod. 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