I just published this helm chart:

📌 https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/helm-watchdog-pod-delete/helm-watchdog-pod-delete

📌 https://github.com/aeciopires/helm-watchdog-pod-delete

It installs a watchdog in the cluster that monitors the Pods and removes those with the CrashLoopBackOff or Error status, forcing a rebuild (if they are being managed by a controller, such as: deployment, replicaset, daemonset, statefulset, etc).

The use case is:

🔧 Reduce manual intervention to rebuild Pods.

🔥 Fix issues with sidecars and initContainers by ensuring that Pods are fully restarted instead of remaining in a partially functional state.

🌍 Resolve race conditions caused by external dependencies being unavailable at startup, ensuring that Pods retry startup when dependencies are ready.

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