<p>Before I start all the services I need a pod that would do some initialization. But I dont want this pod to be running after the init is done and also all the other pods/services should start after this init is done. I am aware of init containers in a pod, but I dont think that would solve this issue, as I want the pod to exit after initialization.</p>

<p>You are recommended to let Kubernetes handle pods automatically instead of manual management by yourself, when you can. Consider <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/job/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Job</a> for run-once tasks like this:</p>
<pre class="lang-yaml prettyprint-override"><code>apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: Job
metadata:
  name: myjob
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      restartPolicy: Never
      containers:
        - name: 
          image: 
</code></pre>
<pre class="lang-sh prettyprint-override"><code>$ kubectl apply -f job.yml
</code></pre>
<p>Kubernetes will create a pod to run that job. The pod will complete as soon as the job exits. Note that the completed job and its pod will be released from consuming resources but not removed completely, to give you a chance to examine its status and log. Deleting the job will remove the pod completely.</p>
<p>Jobs can do advanced things like restarting on failure with exponential backoff, running tasks in parallelism, and limiting the time it runs.</p>
