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Running Kubernetes pods

As with Docker, we can run a Kubernetes pod with the kubectl run command. Let's start with a simple web server example:

$ kubectl run httpd --image=httpd

We can verify the result by getting a list of Kubernetes pods, by running the kubectl get pods command:

$ kubectl get podsNAME                      READY    STATUS    RESTARTS    AGEhttpd-8576c89d7-qjd62      1/1     Running    0          6m

The first time you run this command, you will probably see that the Kubernetes pod status shows up as ContainerCreating. What is happening behind the scenes is that the Docker httpd image is being downloaded to Minikube VM. Be patient and give it some time to download the image. A few minutes later you should be able to see the container status is Running. The kubectl run command ...