If you’ve made changes to your node, like controlplane, one way to watch containers is by using watch crictl ps.
watch crictl ps
Every 2.0s: crictl ps controlplane: Sun Jul 13 09:52:17 2025
CONTAINER IMAGE CREATED STATE NAME ATTEMPT POD ID POD NAMESPACE
1031c8cf533f0 499038711c081 52 seconds ago Running etcd 0 21a567fe3a53c etcd-controlplane kube-system
d43cf29296b92 8d72586a76469 About a minute ago Running kube-scheduler 1 3bf45d79a3f94 kube-scheduler-controlplane kube-system
629f33d5e7925 1d579cb6d6967 About a minute ago Running kube-controller-manager 1 01b6d4c75a936 kube-controller-manager-controlplane kube-system
6add04845d72c ead0a4a53df89 26 minutes ago Running coredns 0 253a07332119b coredns-7484cd47db-s77r5 kube-system
9e92cf744e587 ead0a4a53df89 26 minutes ago Running coredns 0 c5a9702178d0b coredns-7484cd47db-f8ksz kube-system
4b0adac76c03e 01cdfa8dd262f 26 minutes ago Running kube-flannel 0 04df35f0b7b59 kube-flannel-ds-qrf9j kube-flannel
d295c7672e3a9 f1184a0bd7fe5 26 minutes ago Running kube-proxy 0 84b26b171593d kube-proxy-cqzdg kube-system
e68b8821c99c7 6ba9545b2183e 26 minutes ago Running kube-apiserver 0 d14dfb87afe6c kube-apiserver-controlplane kube-system