Gaining deeper understanding of pods

Although the birth and the death are merely a wink during a pod's lifetime, they are the most fragile point of a service. Common situations in the real world such as routing requests to an unready box, or brutally cutting all in-flight connections to a terminating machine, are all what we want to avoid. As a result, even Kubernetes takes care of most things for us, and we should know how to configure it correctly to gain more confident in deploying.

Starting a pod

By default, Kubernetes transfers a pod's state to Running as soon as a pod launches. If the pod is behind a service, the endpoint controller registers an endpoint to Kubernetes immediately. Later on kube-proxy observes...