A production internals guide verified against Kubernetes 1.35 GA
Companion repository: github.com/opscart/k8s-pod-restart-mechanics
The terminology problem
Engineers say “the pod restarted” when they mean four different things. Getting this wrong leads to flawed runbooks and bad on-call decisions.
| Term | Pod UID Changes? | Pod IP Changes? | Restart Count |
| Container restart (process restart in...
