Certified Kubernetes Application Developer CKAD (Kubernetes v1.35 curriculum) · Domain 3: Application Observability and Maintenance

Reading Pod status: Pending, ImagePullBackOff, CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKilled, Completed, exit codes

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Last reviewed September 25, 2026 · Leer en español

The STATUS column of kubectl get pods is a compact summary of a Pod's phase and its containers' states. Learning to read it tells you where to look next and saves a lot of guessing.

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