website/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/container-lifecycle-hooks.md

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title: Container Lifecycle Hooks
id: container-lifecycle-hooks
date: 2018-10-08
full_link: /docs/concepts/containers/container-lifecycle-hooks/
short_description: >
  The lifecycle hooks expose events in the container management lifecycle and let the user run code when the events occur.

aka:
tags:
- extension
---
  The lifecycle hooks expose events in the {{< glossary_tooltip text="Container" term_id="container" >}} management lifecycle and let the user run code when the events occur.

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Two hooks are exposed to Containers: PostStart which executes immediately after a container is created and PreStop which is blocking and is called immediately before a container is terminated.