deleting pods using kubernetes replication controller

Question

I am running a replication controller on aws ec2 instances. I want the pods to get deleted after 5 minutes if they crash, fail or stop. When we run the:

kubectl get pods --namespace=<namespace>

I want it to check the status column and if there's a ClashloopBackOff for any pod, then it needs to be deleted after 5 minutes. How can I do this?

Answer 1

The pods which are managed by ReplicationController try and stay healthy. If the pod crashes it's replicated and started again. But if the same pod is crashing again and again then thte time to be replicated is incrementally increased. eg. first time it'll be 30 seconds, second time 1 minute, third 2 minutes and so on.