Answer
Restart policies (Always, OnFailure, Never) determine behavior and are handled by kubelet.
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The restartPolicy (Always, OnFailure, Never) on the Pod spec controls this. kubelet monitors containers and restarts them according to the policy. The restart count increments and kubelet applies exponential backoff (up to 5 minutes) before each retry — preventing a crashing container from hammering resources. This is what CrashLoopBackOff shows.
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