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Day 55: Kubernetes Sidecar Containers

We have a web server container running the nginx image. The access and error logs generated by the web server are not critical enough to be placed on a persistent volume.

  • Sidecar Containers attach additional functionality to primary containers in Kubernetes.
  • Web server container (nginx-image) serves web pages, while sidecar (ubuntu-image) manages logs.
  • Sidecar runs alongside main container in same Pod using shared emptyDir volume for logs.

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