website/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/static-pod.md

title	id	date	full_link	short_description	aka	tags
Static Pod	static-pod	2019-02-12	/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/static-pod/	A pod managed directly by the kubelet daemon on a specific node.		fundamental

A {{< glossary_tooltip text="pod" term_id="pod" >}} managed directly by the {{< glossary_tooltip text="kubelet" term_id="kubelet" >}} daemon on a specific node,

without the API server observing it.

Static Pods do not support {{< glossary_tooltip text="ephemeral containers" term_id="ephemeral-container" >}}.