If you are not familiar with the oc command, refer to OpenShift - Getting Started with the oc command.

A node contains one or more pods, and each pod contains one or more containers.

Before issuing the oc get pods command, issue the oc login command. In this example, project001 does not contain any pods.

~]# oc get pods -n project001
No resources found.

On the other hand, if your selected project contains one or more pods, something like this should be returned.

~]# oc get pods --namespace project001
NAME         READY   STATUS     RESTARTS  AGE
foo-9mzm2    1/1     Running    0         8d
foo-vmzmz    1/1     Running    0         8d
bar-pflxc    1/1     Running    0         8d

If you do not want to use the -n or --namespace command line option, you can select a project and then issue the oc get pods command without the -n option.

~]# oc get pods
NAME         READY   STATUS     RESTARTS  AGE
foo-9mzm2    1/1     Running    0         8d
foo-vmzmz    1/1     Running    0         8d
bar-pflxc    1/1     Running    0         8d

The -o wide option can be used to include addtional fields.

~]# oc get pods -o wide --namespace project001
NAME         READY   STATUS     RESTARTS  AGE  IP              NODE                 NOMINATED MODE
foo-9mzm2    1/1     Running    0         8d   10.142.118.51   server1.example.com  <none>
foo-vmzmz    1/1     Running    0         8d   10.142.118.52   server2.example.com  <none>
bar-pflxc    1/1     Running    0         8d   10.142.118.53   server3.example.com  <none>

And here is how to view the pods in a specific node.

~]# oc get pods --all-namespaces --field-selector spec.nodeName=dev001-worker-5n4fj
NAMESPACE                          NAME                                     READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
project001                         foo-9mzm2                        1/1     Running   0          84d
project001                         foo-vmzmz                        1/1     Running   0          84d
project002                         bar-pflxc                        1/1     Running   0          84d

The -A o --all-namespaces flag can be used to return every pod in every namespace.

~]# oc get pod001 --all-namespaces
NAMESPACE    NAME       MANAGEMENT STATE   HEALTH   NODES   DATA NODES   SHARD ALLOCATION   INDEX MANAGEMENT
project001   foo-9mzm2  Managed            green    3       3            all

The -o or --output option and custom-columns can be used to customize the columns that are returned. In this example, only the pod and node names will be returned.

~]$ oc get pods --output custom-columns=POD:.metadata.name,custom-columns=POD:.spec.nodeName
POD          NODE
foo-9mzm2    worker-84928
foo-vmzmz    worker-pcl22
bar-pflxc    worker-8wjg7

The -o json or -o yaml option can be used to show the pods JSON or YAML file.

oc get pod foo-vmzmz -o yaml

If you create a pod and deploy an app using the oc new-app command, something like this should be displayed.

NAME               READY     STATUS     RESTARTS   AGE
foo-vmzmz          0/1       Init:0/2   0          15s

If a pod fails to initialize, something like this should be displayed.

NAME               READY     STATUS     RESTARTS   AGE
foo-vmzmz          0/1       Init:Error 0          4m