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

If you docker stop the pause container, you would find that the Pod would have a new internal IP without any change in Restart count of the Pod. However, if you docker stop the container of the Pod, you would find the Pod status as Completed and then if you would docker start the same, you would find Pod in Running again with Restart count of the Pod incremented by 1 with no change in IP.