True Sidecar Containers
Finally a solution to a long lived problem Sometimes working in DevOps means tackling problems in a less then ideal way. Sometimes it’s because of a lack of time, sometimes it is because there is just no better solution to it. For me that problem was having a second container in a pod acting independently from the “main” container. Before Kubernetes introduced actual sidecar containers, the sidecar pattern was implemented using regular containers in the Pod’s containers section. The problem was that all containers (including the sidecar) shared the same lifecycle, making it hard to manage startup and shutdown independently. ...