Kubernetes restartPolicy

• https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/pod-lifecycle/#restart-policy

• restartPolicy: for pods Always, OnFailure, and Never.
• restartPolicy: for Pod templates in Deployments only Always

• kind: Pod
• kind: Deployment

• PodStatus: PodScheduled, ContainersReady, Initialized, Ready

• kubectl get deployments -o json -A | grep restartPolicy

Container restartPolicy

 apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: secret-env-pod
spec:
  containers:
  - name: mycontainer
    image: redis
    env:
      - name: SECRET_USERNAME
        valueFrom:
          secretKeyRef:
            name: mysecret
            key: username
            optional: false # same as default; "mysecret" must exist
                            # and include a key named "username"
      - name: SECRET_PASSWORD
        valueFrom:
          secretKeyRef:
            name: mysecret
            key: password
            optional: false # same as default; "mysecret" must exist
                            # and include a key named "password"
  restartPolicy: Never

Related

• Docker restartPolicy
• Kubernetes Pod Lifecycle
• resources:
• autoScaler:
• kubectl get pods -o json
• dnsPolicy
• Kubernetes probes
• CrashLoopBackOff

See also

• Kubernetes restartPolicy, resources:, autoScaler:
• Kubernetes deployments, strategies: kind: Deployment, Strategies: Recreate or RollingUpdate, kubectl [ create | describe | get | scale | rollout | deployment/ ], Kubernetes Canary Deployments, deployment.kubernetes.io
• Pods: kubectl apply, kubectl [ pod get | top | delete | describe pods ], InitContainers, PodInitializing, CrashLoopBackOff, ImagePullPolicy:, NodeAffinity, NodeSelector, Terminated