6. Managing the lifecycle of the Pod’s containers

This chapter covers

• Inspecting the pod’s status
• Keeping containers healthy using liveness probes
• Using lifecycle hooks to perform actions at container startup and shutdown
• Understanding the complete lifecycle of the pod and its containers

After reading the previous chapter, you should be able to deploy, inspect and communicate with pods containing one or more containers. In this chapter, you’ll gain a much deeper understanding of how the pod and its containers operate.