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+title: App Container
+id: app-container
+date: 2019-02-12
+full_link:
+short_description: >
+  A container used to run part of a workload. Compare with init container.
+
+aka:
+tags:
+- workload
+---
+ Application containers (or app containers) are the {{< glossary_tooltip text="containers" term_id="container" >}} in a {{< glossary_tooltip text="pod" term_id="pod" >}} that are started after any {{< glossary_tooltip text="init containers" term_id="init-container" >}} have completed.
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+An init container lets you separate initialization details that are important for the overall 
+{{< glossary_tooltip text="workload" term_id="workload" >}}, and that don't need to keep running
+once the application container has started.
+If a pod doesn't have any init containers configured, all the containers in that pod are app containers.