Container Lifecycle

Definitions

1. The sequence of states a container goes through from image build and creation to startup, health checks, restarts, shutdown, and removal. Understanding container lifecycle is essential because initialization, signal handling, readiness, and cleanup all affect stability in orchestrated environments.

   In plain English: The stages a container passes through from creation to shutdown and removal.

   Example: "The bug only appeared late in the container lifecycle when terminated pods skipped a shutdown hook that flushed in-memory metrics."

Related Terms

• Maturity Stage
• Backup Strategy
• Clean Shutdown
• Container Health
• Container Init
• Container Limit
• Container Log
• Container Monitor
• Container Restart