10 months ago

Restarting a Kubernetes pod can be necessary to troubleshoot issues, apply configuration changes or simply ensure the pod starts fresh with a clean state.

This post will walk you through the process of restarting pods within a Kubernetes cluster using the command-line tool, kubectl. Let’s dive in and learn how to effectively restart Kubernetes pods using kubectl!

Now let’s review kubectl commands for restarting Kubernetes pods.

There are a few methods to restart Kubernetes pods using the kubectl command-line tool: Rolling Restart Using Deployments or StatefulSets