From 5c99d3431a04cd9115f2c285aa9ba6dbd577ae3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Bannister Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 17:07:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?Add=20=E2=80=9Capp=20container=E2=80=9D=20to=20?= =?UTF-8?q?glossary=20(#12611)?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * Define "app container" * Expand app container explanation * Tweak wording Co-Authored-By: Zach Arnold * Fix, wording nit --- .../docs/reference/glossary/app-container.md | 20 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/en/docs/reference/glossary/app-container.md diff --git a/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/app-container.md b/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/app-container.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c5c4697808 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/app-container.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +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. + + + +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.