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

kubectl exec -it POD_NAME -c CONTAINER_NAME bash - then kill 1

Assuming the container is run as root which is not recommended.

In my case when I changed the application config, I had to reboot the container which was used in a sidecar pattern, I would kill the PID for the spring boot application which is owned by the docker user.