title: Cookie-Based session persistence between pods in kubernetes
body: <p>Stateless is the way to go for services running in pods however i have been trying to move a stateful app which needs to perform session persistence if one pod goes does for resiliency reasons.</p>
  
  <p>In websphere world IHS can be used to keep track of the session and if a node goes down it can be recreated on the live clone. </p>
  
  <p>Is there an industry standard way to handle this issue without having to refactor the applications code by persisting the session using some sidecar pod ?</p>