Pods not always creating logs about k3s

[brandond]

Every time that a pod is created, the logs file should be created.
Pod logs are not consistent since many times they are not even created.

That's not what you showed. You showed that the log files are being created, but contain no output. Can you replicate this with a test pods whose container is guaranteed to produce output on stdout or stderr?

It seems more likely that your containers just aren't writing any log output. I'm not aware of any issues with containerd where it fails to collect output from containerized processes.

Can you also confirm that you're using the embedded containerd, and not docker or some other container runtime?