The application pods are stuck in the Init:0/1 state

Issue

The application pods are stuck in the Init:0/1 state during the deployment rollout or during the pod restart with the following error messages in the kubelet logs on the node.

Oct 18 11:41:08 <NodeName> hyperkube[3802345]: E1018 11:41:08.250087 3802345 manager.go:1123] Failed to create existing container: /kubepods.slice/kubepods-burstable.slice/kubepods-burstable-pod5b415118_2312_48d9_b625_6af811cf3579.slice/crio-b474b2ef4e1409be548415b7275d7629f4d54699beda7f572d84e752dcd28fb2.scope: Error finding container b474b2ef4e1409be548415b7275d7629f4d54699beda7f572d84e752dcd28fb2: Status 404 returned error &{%!s(*http.body=&{0xc002fe2be0 <nil> <nil> false false {0 0} false false false <nil>}) {%!s(int32=0) %!s(uint32=0)} %!s(bool=false) <nil> %!s(func(error) error=0x790ae0) %!s(func() error=0x790a60)}