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Why do Pods restart even when their containers exit with code 0?

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Quick Answer The restartPolicy: Always setting restarts containers regardless of exit code รขโ‚ฌโ€ even 0 (clean exit). This is intentional for long-running services that should never stop. If your container exits cleanly with 0 but you don't want it restarted, use restartPolicy: OnFailure (restart only on non-zero exit) or restartPolicy: Never.

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RestartPolicy Always forces Pod restarts regardless of exit code.
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