# StatefulSet Basics — If you're not sure, leave it running one more minute

> kubectl get pod -l app=nginx --watch Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```text The output is similar to: ``` NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE web-0 1/1 Running 0 7m web-1 1/1 Running 0 7m web-2 1/1 Running 0 8m web-2 1/1 Terminating 0 8m web-2 1/1 Terminating 0 8m web

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kubectl get pod -l app=nginx --watch

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```text
The output is similar to:
```

NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE web-0 1/1 Running 0 7m web-1 1/1 Running 0 7m web-2 1/1 Running 0 8m web-2 1/1 Terminating 0 8m web-2 1/1 Terminating 0 8m web-2 0/1 Terminating 0 8m web-2 0/1 Terminating 0 8m web-2 0/1 Terminating 0 8m web-2 0/1 Terminating 0 8m web-2 0/1 Pending 0 0s web-2 0/1 Pending 0 0s web-2 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 0s web-2 1/1 Running 0 19s web-1 1/1 Terminating 0 8m web-1 0/1 Terminating 0 8m web-1 0/1 Terminating 0 8m web-1 0/1 Terminating 0 8m web-1 0/1 Pending 0 0s web-1 0/1 Pending 0 0s web-1 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 0s web-1 1/1 Running 0 6s web-0 1/1 Terminating 0 7m web-0 1/1 Terminating 0 7m web-0 0/1 Terminating 0 7m web-0 0/1 Terminating 0 7m web-0 0/1 Terminating 0 7m web-0 0/1 Terminating 0 7m web-0 0/1 Pending 0 0s web-0 0/1 Pending 0 0s web-0 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 0s web-0 1/1 Running 0 10s

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The Pods in the StatefulSet are updated in reverse ordinal order. The
StatefulSet controller terminates each Pod, and waits for it to transition to Running and
Ready prior to updating the next Pod. Note that, even though the StatefulSet
controller will not proceed to update the next Pod until its ordinal successor
is Running and Ready, it will restore any Pod that fails during the update to
that Pod's existing version.

Pods that have already received the update will be restored to the updated version,
and Pods that have not yet received the update will be restored to the previous
version. In this way, the controller attempts to continue to keep the application
healthy and the update consistent in the presence of intermittent failures.

Get the Pods to view their container images:
```

for p in 0 1 2; do kubectl get pod "web-$p" --template '{{range $i, $c := .spec.containers}}{{$c.image}}{{end}}'; echo; done

registry.k8s.io/nginx-slim:0.24 registry.k8s.io/nginx-slim:0.24 registry.k8s.io/nginx-slim:0.24

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