diff --git a/Tasks/KubernetesManifestV0/Strings/resources.resjson/en-US/resources.resjson b/Tasks/KubernetesManifestV0/Strings/resources.resjson/en-US/resources.resjson
index 5007602a2f3a..7aa5500b2c6e 100644
--- a/Tasks/KubernetesManifestV0/Strings/resources.resjson/en-US/resources.resjson
+++ b/Tasks/KubernetesManifestV0/Strings/resources.resjson/en-US/resources.resjson
@@ -66,5 +66,7 @@
   "loc.messages.NullInputObjectMetadata": "Input object metadata is null.",
   "loc.messages.CanaryDeploymentAlreadyExistErrorMessage": "Canary deployment already exists. Rejecting this deployment.",
   "loc.messages.InvalidRejectActionDeploymentStrategy": "Reject action works only with strategy: canary",
-  "loc.messages.InvalidPromotetActionDeploymentStrategy": "Promote action works only with strategy: canary"
+  "loc.messages.InvalidPromotetActionDeploymentStrategy": "Promote action works only with strategy: canary",
+  "loc.messages.AllContainersNotInReadyState": "All the containers are not in a ready state",
+  "loc.messages.CouldNotDeterminePodStatus": "Could not determine the pod's status due to the error: %s"
 }
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diff --git a/Tasks/KubernetesManifestV0/src/utils/DeploymentHelper.ts b/Tasks/KubernetesManifestV0/src/utils/DeploymentHelper.ts
index 9b7edd437282..77f162f5955d 100644
--- a/Tasks/KubernetesManifestV0/src/utils/DeploymentHelper.ts
+++ b/Tasks/KubernetesManifestV0/src/utils/DeploymentHelper.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import * as fileHelper from '../utils/FileHelper';
 import * as utils from '../utils/utilities';
 import { IExecSyncResult } from 'azure-pipelines-task-lib/toolrunner';
 import { Kubectl, Resource } from 'kubernetes-common-v2/kubectl-object-model';
+import { isEqual, StringComparer } from './StringComparison';
 
 export function deploy(kubectl: Kubectl, manifestFilePaths: string[], deploymentStrategy: string) {
 
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ function getManifestFiles(manifestFilePaths: string[]): string[] {
     const files: string[] = utils.getManifestFiles(manifestFilePaths);
 
     if (files == null || files.length === 0) {
-        throw (tl.loc('ManifestFileNotFound'));
+        throw (tl.loc('ManifestFileNotFound', manifestFilePaths));
     }
 
     return files;
@@ -65,6 +66,13 @@ function checkManifestStability(kubectl: Kubectl, resourceTypes: Resource[]) {
         if (models.recognizedWorkloadTypesWithRolloutStatus.indexOf(resource.type.toLowerCase()) >= 0) {
             rolloutStatusResults.push(kubectl.checkRolloutStatus(resource.type, resource.name));
         }
+        if (isEqual(resource.type, constants.KubernetesWorkload.Pod, StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase)) {
+            try {
+                checkPodStatus(kubectl, resource.name);
+            } catch (ex) {
+                tl.warning(tl.loc('CouldNotDeterminePodStatus', JSON.stringify(ex)));
+            }
+        }
     });
     utils.checkForErrors(rolloutStatusResults);
 }
@@ -137,3 +145,59 @@ function updateImagePullSecretsInManifestFiles(filePaths: string[], imagePullSec
 function isCanaryDeploymentStrategy(deploymentStrategy: string): boolean {
     return deploymentStrategy != null && deploymentStrategy.toUpperCase() == canaryDeploymentHelper.CANARY_DEPLOYMENT_STRATEGY.toUpperCase();
 }
+
+function checkPodStatus(kubectl: Kubectl, podName: string) {
+    const startTime = new Date();
+    const timeOut = 5 * 60 * 1000; // Timeout 5 min
+    let currentTime = new Date();
+    let podStatus;
+    while (currentTime.getTime() - startTime.getTime() < timeOut) {
+        tl.debug(`Polling for pod status: ${podName}`);
+        podStatus = getPodStatus(kubectl, podName);
+        if (podStatus.phase && podStatus.phase !== 'Pending') {
+                break;
+        }
+        currentTime = new Date();
+    }
+    podStatus = getPodStatus(kubectl, podName);
+    switch (podStatus.phase) {
+        case 'Succeeded':
+        case 'Running':
+            if (isPodReady(podStatus)) {
+                console.log(`pod/${podName} is successfully rolled out`);
+            }
+            break;
+        case 'Pending':
+            if (!isPodReady(podStatus)) {
+                tl.warning(`pod/${podName} rollout status check timedout`);
+            }
+            break;
+        case 'Failed':
+            tl.error(`pod/${podName} rollout failed`);
+            break;
+        default:
+            tl.warning(`pod/${podName} rollout status: ${podStatus.phase}`);
+    }
+}
+
+function getPodStatus(kubectl: Kubectl, podName: string): any {
+    const podResult = kubectl.getResource('pod', podName);
+    utils.checkForErrors([podResult]);
+    const podStatus = JSON.parse(podResult.stdout).status;
+    tl.debug(`Pod Status: ${JSON.stringify(podStatus)}`);
+    return podStatus;
+}
+
+function isPodReady(podStatus: any): boolean {
+    let allContainersAreReady = true;
+    podStatus.containerStatuses.forEach(container => {
+        if (container.ready === false) {
+            console.log(`'${container.name}' status: ${JSON.stringify(container.state)}`);
+            allContainersAreReady = false;
+        }
+    });
+    if (!allContainersAreReady) {
+        tl.warning(tl.loc('AllContainersNotInReadyState'));
+    }
+    return allContainersAreReady;
+}
diff --git a/Tasks/KubernetesManifestV0/task.json b/Tasks/KubernetesManifestV0/task.json
index b515d6d20b44..159a4d45c685 100644
--- a/Tasks/KubernetesManifestV0/task.json
+++ b/Tasks/KubernetesManifestV0/task.json
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
     "version": {
         "Major": 0,
         "Minor": 154,
-        "Patch": 4
+        "Patch": 5
     },
     "demands": [],
     "groups": [],
@@ -310,6 +310,8 @@
         "NullInputObjectMetadata": "Input object metadata is null.",
         "CanaryDeploymentAlreadyExistErrorMessage": "Canary deployment already exists. Rejecting this deployment.",
         "InvalidRejectActionDeploymentStrategy": "Reject action works only with strategy: canary",
-        "InvalidPromotetActionDeploymentStrategy": "Promote action works only with strategy: canary"
+        "InvalidPromotetActionDeploymentStrategy": "Promote action works only with strategy: canary",
+        "AllContainersNotInReadyState": "All the containers are not in a ready state",
+        "CouldNotDeterminePodStatus": "Could not determine the pod's status due to the error: %s"
     }
 }
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diff --git a/Tasks/KubernetesManifestV0/task.loc.json b/Tasks/KubernetesManifestV0/task.loc.json
index a7797e8cb005..a0a48a97e3a6 100644
--- a/Tasks/KubernetesManifestV0/task.loc.json
+++ b/Tasks/KubernetesManifestV0/task.loc.json
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
   "version": {
     "Major": 0,
     "Minor": 154,
-    "Patch": 4
+    "Patch": 5
   },
   "demands": [],
   "groups": [],
@@ -310,6 +310,8 @@
     "NullInputObjectMetadata": "ms-resource:loc.messages.NullInputObjectMetadata",
     "CanaryDeploymentAlreadyExistErrorMessage": "ms-resource:loc.messages.CanaryDeploymentAlreadyExistErrorMessage",
     "InvalidRejectActionDeploymentStrategy": "ms-resource:loc.messages.InvalidRejectActionDeploymentStrategy",
-    "InvalidPromotetActionDeploymentStrategy": "ms-resource:loc.messages.InvalidPromotetActionDeploymentStrategy"
+    "InvalidPromotetActionDeploymentStrategy": "ms-resource:loc.messages.InvalidPromotetActionDeploymentStrategy",
+    "AllContainersNotInReadyState": "ms-resource:loc.messages.AllContainersNotInReadyState",
+    "CouldNotDeterminePodStatus": "ms-resource:loc.messages.CouldNotDeterminePodStatus"
   }
 }
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