File Synchronization With InitContainers And Sidecars

A sidecar container is commonly used in real-world applications to augment the functionality of the primary container. And here we will see some simplified examples of typical sidecar container use cases, along with their scripts or configurations.

  
  
  1. Logging and Monitoring

Scenario: A sidecar container collects logs from the primary application and sends them to a logging service.

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: logging-sidecar
spec:
  containers:
  - name: app-container
    image: nginx
    volumeMounts:
    - name: shared-logs
      mountPath: /var/log/nginx
  - name:...