tl;dr - There are at least two ways to wait for Kubernetes resources you probably care about: kubectl wait for Pods, initContainers for everything else One somewhat rarely talked about issue in Kubernetes land is how exactly people wait for stuff to happen. “Stateful workloads” can get hand-waved to using StatefulSets, and most intricate large deployable things (databases, etc) have Operators that you can use. Sometimes you just want to make sure a Service is up before you start a pod tha...
