How to tell if a Pod is a Static Pod

  1. Static pods will have the name of the node as the last bit. Example: mypod-node01
  2. Look at the YAML for the pod, the ownerReference –> kind will be node

Static Pod Manifest Location

The default is /etc/kubernetes/manifests but you can find the configured value by looking at the kubelet config here: /var/lib/kubelet/config.yaml
The staticPodPath value will contain the file path.