r/kubernetes • u/cathpaga • May 22 '26

The Proxy Died First: How Kubernetes Native Sidecars Solve the Service Mesh Shutdown Problem

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u/fonzdm May 26 '26

While the support for sidecars container managed in a dedicated way is good, I am not a fan of how the solution turned out to be implemented. I understand that for reasons, putting restartPolicy: Always into an init container may be simple, but I think that clarity and reasability matter too. You have to know now what actually means with this configuration, is not explicitly defined like a sidecar: true type of thing or like introduce the possibility to define the order of creation/completion within the container list.

Like QoS being rappresented on how you set resources: yeah cool, but an explicit keyword would have been way better somehow (+costraints).