# Waiting for a pod to be ready

If we need to wait for a pod to come up before proceeding with other actions, we can use `kubectl wait`:

```bash
kubectl wait --for=condition=ready pod --selector "app=my-app" --timeout=60s
```

Source: `man kubectl-wait`


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