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Your job pods never complete because the mesh sidecar keeps running. What changed in Kubernetes to fix this?

A Job with a sidecar was broken by design for years: the workload finishes, the proxy does not, and the pod never terminates. Native sidecars fix it by making the container an init container that keeps running.

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A Job with a sidecar was broken by design for years: the workload finishes, the proxy does not, and the pod never terminates. Native sidecars fix it by making the container an init container that keeps running.

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