beginnerPods: Lifecycle, Init Containers & Sidecars
What problem does the native sidecar feature solve?
In the older pattern, a sidecar was just a regular container with no ordering guarantees -- it could terminate before the app. The native sidecar (restartPolicy: Always on an init container) guarantees it starts before app containers and is signaled only after them.
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