Pod Kicker

This is small proof of concept of a process to restart pods via their deployment and the Kubernetes API, when watched local files change. Intended to be run as a sidecar

Getting Started

Installing / Deploying

See examples in deploy directory for how to add the podkicker sidecar to any pod, and the service account needed.

Running locally

The code only works running inside a pod in Kubernetes

Configuration

Details of any configuration files, environmental variables, command line parameters, etc.

For services

Setting / Variable	Purpose	Default
PODKICKER_WATCH	What file or directory to watch for changes, when a directory is added all files and sub-directories under it are watched recursively. Required	None
PODKICKER_TARGET_NAME	The name of the Kubernetes deployment or stateful set to be restarted. Typically this is the same one as the sidecar is running under. Required	None
PODKICKER_TARGET_TYPE	Either "deployment" or "statefulset"	"deployment"

Repository Structure

A brief description of the top-level directories of this project is as follows:

/build      - Build configuration e.g. Dockerfiles
/deploy     - Deployment and infrastructure as code, inc Kubernetes
/cmd        - Source code

Known Issues

All file operations will trigger the restart, there is no filter yet

License

This project uses the MIT software license. See full license file