<p>To know the container start time, we generally describe the pod using:
<code>kubectl describe pod &lt;pod-name&gt;</code>. I need to access the container's start time via a kubectl api in terms of timestamp or any format. Do this exist in the API?</p>

medgai
<p>Effectively you could grab this via the status and state transitions. With kubectl it would look like this:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>kubectl get pod $PODNAME -o jsonpath='{.status.conditions[?(@.type==&quot;Ready&quot;)].lastTransitionTime}'</p>
</blockquote>
<p>would yield <code>2021-05-25T15:57:03Z</code> right now for me.</p>
