# Kong kubernetes pod does not start after system restart

**URL:** <https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-kubernetes-pod-does-not-start-after-system-restart/3220>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** kubernetes, kong-gateway\
**Created:** [April 8, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-kubernetes-pod-does-not-start-after-system-restart/3220 "2019-04-08T15:15:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Prashant\_Shandilya](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/prashant_shandilya/32/805_2.png) [@Prashant\_Shandilya](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/Prashant_Shandilya)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 7:17am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-kubernetes-pod-does-not-start-after-system-restart/3220/10 "2019-04-12T07:17:28Z")

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Tried it setup on k8s set up on ubuntu (WAS EC2). Had stability issue there as well ☹

> [@Kong k8s POD crashes after few hours](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-k8s-pod-crashes-after-few-hours/3280):
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> Installed kong k8s version using on ubunku k8s master (AWS ec2) helm install stable/kong It was working perfect post installation. After few hours (20 odd hrs), pod kong pod is crashed with error: ‘Error syncing pod’ Logs are as below. This repeated twice. I had reinstalled and was able to reproduce same issue. prefix directory /usr/local/kong not found, trying to create it 2019/04/12 07:06:13 [warn] postgres database ‘kong’ is missing migration: (response-transformer) 2016-05-04-160000…

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