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Managing pods in OpenShift

OpenShift pods are Kubernetes pods that represent a collection of containers, and each pod serves as a basic management unit. All containers in a pod share the same storage volumes and network. In order to get a list of pods in OpenShift, we can use the oc get pods command:

$ oc get podsNAME            READY  STATUS    RESTARTS      AGEruby-ex-1-build  0/1   Completed   0           1hruby-ex-1-zzhrc  1/1   Running     0           56m

It is no different from the Kubernetes pod, which means behind the scenes it is a Docker container running. The only difference is that there are two containers now. One of them is a container (ruby-ex-1-build) that is used to build the final image with the source code applied. We can easily verify this by running the docker ps command ...