When checking out the nodes of your Kubernetes cluster, you may have noticed some containers called “pause” running when you do a docker ps on the node. $ docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND ... ... 3b45e983c859 gcr.io/google_containers/pause-amd64:3.0 "/pause" ... ... dbfc35b00062 gcr.io/google_containers/pause-amd64:3.0 "/pause" ... ... c4e998ec4d5d gcr.io/google_containers/pause-amd64:3.0 "/pa