Prevent pod from shutting down immediately - Kubernetes

Question

How do I prevent Kubernetes pod from shutting down immediately? My ingress needs to know that my pod is going to stop before it can stop sending traffic to it.

Answer 1

The easiest way out is to prevent the pod from shutting immediately. This is possible with a preStop hook. Adding in a preStop hook to the deployment which does sleep 5 should delay the pod termination long enough to let the Ingress update and remove the disabled pod from its upstream list.