From k8s perspective a pod is ephemeral so if it’s gone for any reason it’s gone. Obviously there are structures that can ensure running state (like Deployments or Statefulsets) so if a pod dies, another one takes place. We didn;t go in this direction because pods are not idempotent so it’s not straightfoward to simply replace them. Btw this looks an interesting topic to me so I’d like to include SuccessfulKoala55 on this also because i’m involved more in infra side of the equation and I may miss something here.