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.

Pod States

State

Description

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.