<p>I am using a GKE cluster with Ubuntu nodes &amp; containerd as CRI. I am not able to see any pause containers the way we used to see in docker. Are they no more exists in containerd? Anything changed or I am not aware of?</p>
<p>cluk_ti4@gke-cluster-1-default-pool-b897ab15-7kzn:~$ sudo -i</p>
<pre><code>&gt; root@gke-cluster-1-default-pool-b897ab15-7kzn:~# docker ps CONTAINER
&gt; ID        IMAGE               COMMAND             CREATED            
&gt; STATUS              PORTS               NAMES
&gt; 
&gt; root@gke-cluster-1-default-pool-b897ab15-7kzn:~# crictl ps CONTAINER  
&gt; IMAGE               CREATED             STATE               NAME      
&gt; ATTEMPT             POD ID 65b544036d815       cb2388d1f0a57       25
&gt; hours ago        Running             data-db                0         
&gt; 868cf5dd712a3 42afee3f328b1       0e403e3816e89       25 hours ago    
&gt; Running             dbcontainer            0                  
&gt; 1e67b12c7ddbf 944ac9c2334e2       295c7be079025       25 hours ago    
&gt; Running             nginx                  0                  
&gt; 9bc0d4292190b 99aff9af2f0c8       0e403e3816e89       25 hours ago    
&gt; Running             redis                  0                  
&gt; d5cda32e41f0f 43af76f1b819e       6266988902813       4 days ago      
&gt; Running             prometheus-to-sd       0                  
&gt; 43441f62220af 17d024b959956       d204263033d6e       4 days ago      
&gt; Running             sidecar                0                  
&gt; 43441f62220af e417d5e3b723f       ffd5a31c75009       4 days ago      
&gt; Running             dnsmasq                0                  
&gt; 43441f62220af d1c035046787f       1434d0253770f       4 days ago      
&gt; Running             konnectivity-agent     0                  
&gt; b19697ac36cf1 596e5a51c5fb8       1434d0253770f       4 days ago      
&gt; Running             konnectivity-agent     0                  
&gt; d0d35f65b0a3d 9231a60426be9       98b27a8d721c5       4 days ago      
&gt; Running             gce-pd-driver          0                  
&gt; e17e59a9486f6 63b943910b402       a26d732ed0895       4 days ago      
&gt; Running             gke-metrics-agent      0                  
&gt; 7052db1775ea5 cca9f35cec83d       5440bb4e13af5       4 days ago      
&gt; Running             kubedns                0                  
&gt; 43441f62220af 83570807e719c       ff9d4d52a7759       4 days ago      
&gt; Running             fluentbit-gke          0                  
&gt; 7bf90df2dc604 a0444e1f50435       8ee6ce05080ec       4 days ago      
&gt; Running             csi-driver-registrar   0                  
&gt; e17e59a9486f6 16ec942baf944       294aee909773c       4 days ago      
&gt; Running             fluentbit              0                  
&gt; 7bf90df2dc604 1cb29a3a26896       217b1e208caea       4 days ago      
&gt; Running             kube-proxy             0                  
&gt; 3923908ea54d7
</code></pre>
<p>root@gke-cluster-1-default-pool-b897ab15-7kzn:~# crictl ps | grep -i pause</p>
<p>root@gke-cluster-1-default-pool-b897ab15-7kzn:~#</p>

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<pre><code>ctr -n k8s.io c ls
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<p>you can do like this</p>
