States
Understanding the pod's state lets you determine the current health and prevent the potential risks. The following table describes the pod's states.
State |
Description |
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Running |
The pod is healthy and deployed on a node. It contains one or more containers |
Pending |
The application is in the process of creating the container images for the pod |
Succeeded |
Indicates that all the containers in the pod are successfully terminated. These pods cannot be restarted. |
Failed |
One ore more containers in the pod have failed the termination process. The failure occurred as the container either exited with non zero status or the system terminated the container. |
Unknown |
The state of the pod could not be determined. Typically, this could be observed because the node where the pod resides was not reachable. |