[Disclaimer] I struggled a lot with writing this article, as K8S itself is way too big to grasp quickly and I had to make a lot of compromises on the structure and details for it all to make some sense. The article may feel dragged in some places, jumping from topic to topic yet I had to complete it, so sorry not sorry. GenAI has been used to generate the diagrams from the Kubernetes, Container-D and RunC codebase. ...
Part 2: Docker Containers and graceful shutdown Part 1: Signals and Linux Part 2: Containers and signals Part 3: Graceful shutdown of K8S pods [you’re here] Part 4: Django and Gunicorn [WIP] Part 5: Celery [WIP] Part 6: Other frameworks and libraries [WIP] Intro The previous chapter was difficult, and I assumed things would get easier along the way. Little did I know. Instead of discussing the actual graceful shutdown topic, this post will focus more on the overview of the modern state of containers application. ...