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Pod Sandboxes and Pause Containers

Ten Pods on this node means ten pause containers doing nothing at all. That is the point: the pause container owns the network namespace so the containers that come and go can share it without losing the Pod IP.

Containers and Runtimes Guide 12 of 46 Intermediate

Written against the versions above. containerd 2.x moved its configuration layout. Paths below are 2.x; on 1.x the same settings live under different table names.

Every command here runs on the node itself. This layer is below the API server, so kubectl cannot see it.
Server NameIP AddressOSRolesCPURAMHDD
CKA1001192.168.0.175Ubuntu 26.04 LTSControl Plane Node2 Core4 GB50 GB
CKA1001-NODE01192.168.0.176Ubuntu 26.04 LTSWorker Node2 Core4 GB50 GB

Before you start

  1. A Pod is a sandbox plus containers

  2. Ten Pods, ten pause containers

  3. Where the sandbox lives on disk

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