Restart container within pod

Question

I have a pod test-1495806908-xn5jn with 2 containers. I\'d like to restart one of them called container-test. Is it possible to restart a single co

Answer 1

Both pod and container are ephemeral, try to use the following command to stop the specific container and the k8s cluster will restart a new container.

kubectl exec -it [POD_NAME] -c [CONTAINER_NAME] -- /bin/sh -c "kill 1"

This will send a SIGTERM signal to process 1, which is the main process running in the container. All other processes will be children of process 1, and will be terminated after process 1 exits. See the kill manpage for other signals you can send.