How to Stop/Pause a Pod in Kubernetes

Date: 2024-03-27

This article explains how to stop and pause pods in Kubernetes. Stopping a pod, using kubectl delete pod <pod-name>, terminates its containers and releases resources. Forcibly stopping uses --force. Pausing a pod, by modifying its spec to set spec.paused to true, freezes its processes without termination, useful for debugging. Both actions are crucial for managing containerized applications in Kubernetes. Read more: https://examples.javacodegeeks.com/pause-and-stop-pods-in-kubernetes/