Lightning Talk: Kubernetes Jobs and the Sidecar Problem

The popular sidecar pattern has influenced the way organizations integrate their infrastructure with Kubernetes. However, it can often be a challenge adapting the sidecar pattern for workload patterns …

The popular sidecar pattern has influenced the way organizations integrate their infrastructure with Kubernetes. However, it can often be a challenge adapting the sidecar pattern for workload patterns like batch jobs that do not fall into the domain of Deployments and the traditional microservice paradigm. This talk will describe the current problems and limitations with running Kubernetes Jobs in infrastructure setups that involve sidecar containers. We’ll briefly cover how Spotify’s use case with Jobs and sidecars conflicts with these issues. But more importantly, we’ll cover what the roots of these Job and sidecar issues are, explain a few of the most popular workarounds in the community, and highlight the currently open Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal that presents a potential solution via new Kubernetes features.