I hope I've avoided containers enough to let this phase pass by. Formalizing vocabulary around the different states of a container makes me want to throw up my hands in a Seinfeld "come one" motion.
Like it or not, containers are here to stay. They just make way too much sense as an atomic unit for delivering applicstions and really aren't that complicated.
Kubernetes is a whole nother beast though and while it introduces a ton of overhead, it can be useful at a certain organisational scale as an API definition for delivering services to other teams.
This isn't about the state of container. It's about interactions between several containers (a group of containers is called a pod). Which, probably, doesn't make it better for you, but for the sake of correctness...
