 Hi, everyone. In the definition show, I often ask this question to my guests. What is your favorite Kubernetes feature? Well, let's find out the answers. You can choose two. Can I have more than one? Yeah, I mean, the most basic thing, of course, is the fact that you can, you know, make a deployment that can then automatically schedule your workload onto the machines that's available, right? That's number one. You can scale it. But then after that, I think the other really critical feature is the health checking that can, you know, do some of the automatic health checks and restarts. I mean, to me, that's the most basic fundamental application life cycle features that everyone should be using. And, you know, it makes the system run better and you can be more hands-off. So to me, that's, you know, definitely one of my favorite features, right? Because without it, Kubernetes wouldn't be, okay, I think. Yeah, so those are the first features that's out there and they're still my favorites today. Yeah, the most basic ones, really. One single feature. So I would have to decide between, first of all, just the scheduling of parts that you say, okay, give me so and so many replicas and then just Kubernetes, make sure they end up somewhere and, you know, you don't have to care about it. So the, this abstraction, well, or probably even more the service, this discoverability. So the fact that you have the cluster internal service resolution, and you just say, okay, give me the, I don't know, coffee shop application, and then it's backed by so and so many instances and, you know, the service does the load balancing to all of the number of replicas that you have. Because why I say this is I've seen it many, many times that you just have to set this up, you know, manually, if you have a VM or just some, you know, root server somewhere. And then, of course, you always have to somewhat install, I don't know, Nginx or h8 proxy and then just proxy all the instances of all the so and so many instances that you have and, you know, have them in your, in your rounded there. So it's, you know, you just see the benefits. And this is really nice in Kubernetes that you say, you know, you write this in YAML, whether or not you like YAML, but it's definitely faster than, you know, setting up your own reverse proxy or something. So I would say this is the favorite feature. This really helps. Yeah, the scheduler is just impressive. You know, if in the beginning you don't pay attention, but if you think what happens, everything behind the scenes and yeah, it's just, yeah, it's just magic. It's scaling. Why? Because who is just one common line, you can scale up all down. Yeah. You can have five, 10 or more posture when you want. Yes. And for me, it's, when you say that it's simple, but it's a kind of magical things. Yeah, I agree. When you just type this line and scale and how many replicas? Four and five spots. And you can scale down to Stereopod. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And if you don't need to do that, the native will do that for you scaling to zero. But yeah, yeah, that's a really great one. Yeah. Okay. I like it. And I like the horizontal pod. Oh, yeah. So far, what I really like, like a feature that I really like, and that is not well known is the init containers. So you can, you can have your, yeah, you can describe a pod with multiple images. And sometimes you need to initiate, to initialize this or this image when it starts. And these init containers allows you to do that. And the good thing is the contract is if basically until these initialize container has not finished successfully, then your containers, they won't start. Yeah, that's really good. Meaning you can be sure that when you start, you have the exact states that you need. So for example, you can read from a remote git repository and put that into a shared volume in the pod. And you know that it will be there when you start. That's, I think it's a nifty feature that is, well, not as well known as it should be, but it's really good. And again, I'm not, I'm not an expert. So probably there are a lot of features that are really great. But this one I love, at least for my usage. Yeah, that's pretty interesting. You're the first one mentioning the init container. And yeah. And you, what is your favorite feature in Kubernetes? Share it in the comments. Bye-bye.