[paranoidrobot]

Yeah, there were a bunch of reasons.

Using SIGTERM is a problem because it conflicts with other behavior.

For instance, if you use SIGTERM for this then you have a potential for the app quitting during the preStop, which will be detected as a crash by Kube and so restart your app.

[chippiewill]

> which will be detected as a crash by Kube and so restart your app.

I don't think kubernetes restarts pods that have been marked for termination