<p>Command to pause or stop POD , I have to replicate scenario in production
POD contains containers running 
there is a way to pause docker containers is there any way for POD in Kubernetes </p>

Alok
<p>if I understand your request correctly you should just scale up/down your deployment:</p>

<pre><code>kubectl scale deployment &lt;deployment_name&gt; --replicas=&lt;number_of_needed_pods&gt;
</code></pre>
