What are the pause containers?

Question

In my IBM Cloud Private, I see several pause containers.

Can anyone explain the purpose of these? Normally, I can get to the bash shell in a running container but not th

Answer 1

The 'pause' container is a container which holds the network namespace for the pod. Kubernetes creates pause containers to acquire the respective pod’s IP address and set up the network namespace for all other containers that join that pod.

You can access below links for details.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/kubernetes-users/jVjv0QK4b_o

https://www.ianlewis.org/en/almighty-pause-container