Kubernetes - Pod Remains in ContainerCreating Status

Doing a full reboot of both VMs that are running the Kubernetes master node and Kubernetes worker node got the Pods to all show as Running (NOTE: After first reboot, it took about 15-20 mins for the pods in question to go into a Running state and, on subsequent reboot, the pods in question went into Running state relatively much quicker... 3-5 mins).

Use kubectl describe pod <name> to see more info

Using kubectl describe pod would show all the events. In some cases, the deployment might be still pulling the docker images from remote, so the status would be still shown as ContainerCreating