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title: "In-place pod restarts: Boosting efficiency and workload reliability in Kubernetes v1.35"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/in-place-pod-restarts-boosting-efficiency-and-workload-reliability-in-kubernetes-v1-35-ufjluvvsx
source_url: http://opensource.googleblog.com/2026/06/in-place-pod-restarts-boosting-efficiency-and-workload-reliability-in-kubernetes-v135.html
type: article
source: "Google Open Source Blog"
published: 2026-06-21T06:07:51.174Z
updated: 2026-08-24T07:04:00.318Z
tags: ["kubernetes", "distributed-systems", "orchestration"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 11
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# In-place pod restarts: Boosting efficiency and workload reliability in Kubernetes v1.35

**[Google Open Source Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/googleoss)** · 5 min read · 11 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Kubernetes v1.35 introduces the RestartAllContainers action (graduating to beta in v1.36), enabling in-place pod restarts without recreating the entire Pod object. By keeping the Pod sandbox intact — preserving network identity, GPU/TPU bindings, and storage mounts — containers can recover from failures while avoiding control plane churn, scheduling delays, and resource race conditions. This is especially valuable for large batch and AI/ML workloads where pod recreation at scale causes 'Thundering Herd' scheduling storms. The feature is configured via restartPolicyRules in the pod spec, introduces an AllContainersRestarting condition for observability, and requires applications to be idempotent and handle abrupt SIGKILL termination. Recovery times for JobSet workloads reportedly dropped from minutes to seconds.

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