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

yes, the pause container is part of each pod that is responsible to create shared network, assign ip address within the pod for all business containers inside this pod, also the pause container shared the volume for entire pod. If the pause container is dead, kubernetes consider the pod died and kill it and reschedule a new one.