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Every Kubernetes pod runs a pause container nobody deployed. Why does it exist?

It sounds like trivia and screens for something real: whether you understand that a pod is a shared namespace boundary with an owner, not just a group of containers.

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It sounds like trivia and screens for something real: whether you understand that a pod is a shared namespace boundary with an owner, not just a group of containers.

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