website/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/ephemeral-container.md

title	id	date	full_link	short_description	aka	tags
Ephemeral Container	ephemeral-container	2019-08-26	/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/ephemeral-containers/	A type of container type that you can temporarily run inside a Pod		fundamental

A {{< glossary_tooltip term_id="container" >}} type that you can temporarily run inside a {{< glossary_tooltip term_id="pod" >}}.

If you want to investigate a Pod that's running with problems, you can add an ephemeral container to that Pod and carry out diagnostics. Ephemeral containers have no resource or scheduling guarantees, and you should not use them to run any part of the workload itself.