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title: Configure Pod Initialization
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This page shows how to use an Init Container to initialize a Pod before an
application Container runs.
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## Create a Pod that has an Init Container
In this exercise you create a Pod that has one application Container and one
Init Container. The init container runs to completion before the application
container starts.
Here is the configuration file for the Pod:
{% include code.html language="yaml" file="init-containers.yaml" ghlink="/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/init-containers.yaml" %}
In the configuration file, you can see that the Pod has a Volume that the init
container and the application container share.
The init container mounts the
shared Volume at `/work-dir`, and the application container mounts the shared
Volume at `/usr/share/nginx/html`. The init container runs the following command
and then terminates:
wget -O /work-dir/index.html http://kubernetes.io
Notice that the init container writes the `index.html` file in the root directory
of the nginx server.
Create the Pod:
kubectl create -f https://k8s.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/init-containers.yaml
Verify that the nginx container is running:
kubectl get pod init-demo
The output shows that the nginx container is running:
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
nginx 1/1 Running 0 43m
Get a shell into the nginx container running in the init-demo Pod:
kubectl exec -it init-demo -- /bin/bash
In your shell, send a GET request to the nginx server:
root@nginx:~# apt-get update
root@nginx:~# apt-get install curl
root@nginx:~# curl localhost
The output shows that nginx is serving the web page that was written by the init container:
<!Doctype html>
<html id="home">
<head>
...
"url": "http://kubernetes.io/"}</script>
</head>
<body>
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<p>Kubernetes is open source giving you the freedom to take advantage ...</p>
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* Learn more about
[communicating between Containers running in the same Pod](/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/communicate-containers-same-pod/).
* Learn more about [Init Containers](/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/init-containers/).
* Learn more about [Volumes](/docs/concepts/storage/volumes/).
* Learn more about [Debugging Init Containers](/docs/tasks/debug-application-cluster/debug-init-containers/)
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