# Worker role not appearing

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/worker-role-not-appearing/36009>\
**Category:** k3s, k3OS, and k3d\
**Created:** [October 31, 2021, 6:48pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/worker-role-not-appearing/36009 "2021-10-31T18:48:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 31, 2021, 6:48pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/worker-role-not-appearing/36009/1 "2021-10-31T18:48:30Z")

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Hi,

I did my first install of K3s, with 2 nodes, one for the master, and the second one for the worker. The installation was really easy, I did not expected to have a real kubernetes cluster running on a few minutes. However, there is some thing I am not sure if I did correctly, because I expected different behaviours.

For example, when I did a get node, to know roles, the worker is not tagged.

> # k3s kubectl get node
> 
> NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION  
> ip-172-31-39-16.eu-west-3.compute.internal Ready control-plane,master 32m v1.21.5+k3s2  
> ip-172-31-39-179.eu-west-3.compute.internal Ready 9s v1.21.5+k3s2

First doubt: Why the worker node is tagged as “none” instead of worker ?  
I tryed then to launch nginx, to see where it was going to run. In fact, I launched 4 pods of nginx. I got 3 of them running at the server, and 1 running on the worker. I can not understand why, since neither the server has the “worker” role assigned, neither the worker was tagged correctly.

See below comands:

# k3s kubectl create deployment nginx --image=nginx

deployment.apps/nginx created

# k3s kubectl scale --replicas=4 deployment/nginx

deployment.apps/nginx scaled

# k3s kubectl get pods

NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE  
nginx-6799fc88d8-wsf5m 1/1 Running 0 111s  
nginx-6799fc88d8-584hx 1/1 Running 0 36s  
nginx-6799fc88d8-smpxc 1/1 Running 0 36s  
nginx-6799fc88d8-599v8 1/1 Running 0 36s

# k3s kubectl describe pod nginx-6799fc88d8-smpxc

Name: nginx-6799fc88d8-smpxc  
Namespace: default  
Priority: 0  
**Node: ip-172-31-39-16.eu-west-3.compute.internal/172.31.39.16**

# k3s kubectl describe pod nginx-6799fc88d8-599v8

Name: nginx-6799fc88d8-599v8  
Namespace: default  
Priority: 0  
Node: ip-172-31-39-16.eu-west-3.compute.internal/172.31.39.16

]# k3s kubectl describe pod nginx-6799fc88d8-wsf5m  
Name: nginx-6799fc88d8-wsf5m  
Namespace: default  
Priority: 0  
Node: ip-172-31-39-179.eu-west-3.compute.internal/172.31.39.179

# k3s kubectl describe pod nginx-6799fc88d8-584hx

Name: nginx-6799fc88d8-584hx  
Namespace: default  
Priority: 0  
Node: ip-172-31-39-179.eu-west-3.compute.internal/172.31.39.179

So, 3 instances running on node master (not sure why is accepting nodes, if it has no the tag or worker on the roles!) and 1 instance running on node worker (that also, should not accept pods, since is not tagged correctly).

can some one please help me to understand whay I am doing wrong ?

Thks!