Pod Status

Pod status tells where the pod is in its lifecycle. It can be viewed using k get pods command.

• Pending - pod is waiting to be scheduled on a node
• ContainerCreating - pulling the images and starting the containers for the pod
• Running - the containers inside the pod are running

Pod Conditions

Binary values signifying the state of a pod. It can be viewed by running k describe pod <pod- name> command and looking at the conditions section.

• PodScheduled - pod has been scheduled on a node
• Initialized - pod has been initialized
• ContainersReady - containers inside the pod are ready to run
• Ready - pod is ready to run (when all the containers inside the pod are ready to run)