Kubernetes Pods: Running a .NET Container, Lifecycle, Init Containers and Native Sidecars
A pod is the unit of execution for containers sharing one network; .NET 8+ images listen on 8080, chiseled images come non-root and shell-less, while the full aspnet image trips runAsNonRoot. With real output we look at pod phases, CrashLoopBackOff's doubling backoff, the limits of a wait-for-db init container, native sidecars (stable in 1.33) and why a sidecar that ignores SIGTERM stretches pod deletion by 30 seconds.
8 Nov 2026
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11 min
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