As you might have guessed, the title of this blog is a reference to the 1998 Pixar movie A Bug's Life and indeed, there are many parallels between a worker ant and a pod in Kubernetes. In the following, we'll have a closer look at the entire pod lifecycle here from a practitioners point-of-view, including ways how you can influence the start-up and shut-down behavior and good practices around appl
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