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Re:Kubernetes is our generation's Multics by ferdowsi on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:16PM (#27911565)
Why can you not have downtime-free deploys? You tell your applications to drain connections and gracefully exit on SIGTERM. https://pkg.go.dev/net/http#Server.Shutdown

If your server is incapable of gracefully exiting, that's not a K8s problem.

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Re:Kubernetes is our generation's Multics by afrodc_ on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:20PM (#27911614)
> Why can you not have downtime-free deploys? You tell your applications to drain connections and gracefully exit on SIGTERM. https://pkg.go.dev/net/http#Server.Shutdown

> If your server is incapable of gracefully exiting, that's not a K8s problem.

Also whatever load balancer/service mesh you have can be configured for 503 rerouting within DC as necessary too.

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Re:Kubernetes is our generation's Multics by bajsejohannes on Thursday July 22, 2021 @05:42AM (#27917061)
> You tell your applications to drain connections and gracefully exit on SIGTERM.

The problem is that k8s will send requests to your application after SIGTERM. So you have to wait some amount of time before shutting down to allow for that.

This was at least the case last time I used k8s, and it seemed like it was due to the distributed architecture, so something that was more than a mere bugfix away.

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