Earlier in this book, we learned that containers have a life cycle. A container is initialized, run, and ultimately exited. When a container exits, it can do this gracefully with an exit code zero or it can terminate with an error, which is equivalent to a nonzero exit code.
Similarly, a pod has a life cycle. Due to the fact that a pod can contain more than one container, this life cycle is slightly more complicated than that of a single container. The life cycle of a pod can be seen in the following diagram:
The life cycle of Kubernetes pods
When a Pod is created on a cluster node, it first enters into the pending status. Once ...
