Restart container within pod
There are cases when you want to restart a specific container instead of deleting the pod and letting Kubernetes recreate it.
Doing a kubectl exec POD_NAME -c CONTAINER_NAME /sbin/killall5
worked for me.
(I changed the command from reboot
to /sbin/killall5
based on the below recommendations.)
Is it possible to restart a single container
Not through kubectl
, although depending on the setup of your cluster you can "cheat" and docker kill the-sha-goes-here
, which will cause kubelet to restart the "failed" container (assuming, of course, the restart policy for the Pod says that is what it should do)
how do I restart the pod
That depends on how the Pod was created, but based on the Pod name you provided, it appears to be under the oversight of a ReplicaSet, so you can just kubectl delete pod test-1495806908-xn5jn
and kubernetes will create a new one in its place (the new Pod will have a different name, so do not expect kubectl get pods
to return test-1495806908-xn5jn
ever again)
I m using
kubectl rollout restart deployment [deployment_name]
or
kubectl delete pod [pod_name]
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.