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Pods: Lifecycle, Init Containers & Sidecars

A Pod is the smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes -- not a container. A Pod wraps one or more containers that share the same network namespace (same IP, same localhost) and can share storage volumes

Learning objectives

  • Trace a Pod through its full phase lifecycle, and explain what each phase actually means.
  • Explain what an init container guarantees that a regular container in the same Pod doesn't.
  • Distinguish a sidecar container from an init container by when each one runs relative to the main application container.

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Pods: Lifecycle, Init Containers & Sidecars

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