# What does a newly created replacement Pod look like?

**URL:** <https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/what-does-a-newly-created-replacement-pod-look-like/11498>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** docs\
**Created:** [June 18, 2020, 11:44am UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/what-does-a-newly-created-replacement-pod-look-like/11498 "2020-06-18T11:44:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![adiman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@adiman](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/adiman)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 11:44am UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/what-does-a-newly-created-replacement-pod-look-like/11498/1 "2020-06-18T11:44:40Z")

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The K8S documentation states that, `if a Node fails, a controller notices that Pods on that Node have stopped working and creates a replacement Pod.`  
What does a replacement pod look like? If Pod is a K8S object inside which Kubernetes runs containers, what does a newly created Pod object look like or contain before a scheduler places the pod on to a node? After all, containers can run only when a node is assigned to the pod right?

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**Author:** ![adiman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@adiman](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/adiman)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 6:57pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/what-does-a-newly-created-replacement-pod-look-like/11498/2 "2020-06-18T18:57:23Z")

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Is this pod just an abstract object to which a network IP is assigned and a container image is associated with it and is in `Pending`. And the containers will run only when the pod gets assigned to a node when it transitions into `Running` phase.

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**Author:** ![stephendotcarter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.kubernetes.io/stephendotcarter/32/4528_2.png) [@stephendotcarter](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/stephendotcarter)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 10:25pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/what-does-a-newly-created-replacement-pod-look-like/11498/3 "2020-06-18T22:25:37Z")

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I think your description is accurate enough.  
Firstly ignore replacement pod. This is the same for any pod.  
Until the pod is scheduled to a node it only exists as a resource definition in the API server.  
After being scheduled, the kubelet on the worker node will begin creating one or more running containers based on whats specified in pod definition.

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**Author:** ![adiman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@adiman](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/adiman)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2020, 2:05am UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/what-does-a-newly-created-replacement-pod-look-like/11498/4 "2020-06-19T02:05:50Z")

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Thank you @stephendotcarter 🙂 That answers my question.