HPK reports the pod as "running" whereas the container is still being created

[fnikolai]

Is that a problem we should worry about?

[chazapis]

If there is a way to know that the container is indeed running, I suppose it would be better to show it as "running" then.

I recall the problem being that once the execution context is handled over to Apptainer, we have no way of being notified of the details. Apptainer may take some time to actually run the container, as it may need to download and then extract the image.

One idea would be to break this into two steps: download (and extract) the image and then ask Apptainer to run it, thus minimizing the startup time.