<p>I am not sure I am understanding Kubernetes Init containers properly. What i want to do is run an initialization on the pod so that it pip installs some additional libraries that are not in my app container image. Specifically I am wanting to install the Azure storage queue such that i can use it with the standard TensorFlow image.</p>

<p>I set up my init container with the command "pip install azure-storage-queue" and that ran fine however my app container tells me "No module named azure"</p>

<p>Is this not how an init container can be used?</p>

<p>NOTE: I realize i could create a new image with all my prerequisites installed however this is just for development purposes</p>

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<p>That's not really how init containers work... Init containers are meant to initialize the <strong>pod</strong> and the image isn't really shared with other containers that will later run on that pod.</p>

<p>The best solution is to create a new container image including the Python modules you need.</p>

<p>An alternative is to use a command to run in your container that first installs the modules using <code>pip</code> and later runs the script that needs them, that way you can avoid creating a new container image.</p>
