States

The following table describes the state of a pod.

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 cann't 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.