jargon

Platform & DevOps·Placement, resources and the pod lifecycle

you get thirty seconds after the signal to finish, and at second thirty-one you are killed with no negotiation.

Termination grace period

Also calledgrace period, shutdown timeout

The window between the polite termination signal and the unconditional kill. It has to exceed the longest piece of work a container can legitimately be doing, which for a request handler is short and for a batch consumer can be minutes. Every deployment being exactly as slow as this number is the classic sign that nothing is handling the signal and everything is waiting to be killed.

Commonly confused with