I am going to utilize the pod IP environment variable in my K8s deployment so that the pod IP should be assigned to a container's argument which is listening on this IP. I tried to fetch pod IP via "status.podIP" and retrieve it in the arg section as follow:

env:
 - name: MY_POD_IP
   valueFrom:
     fieldRef:
       fieldPath: status.podIP

the container is a proxy application which is listening on the pod IP and its own port number.

- args:
   - --listen=MY_POD_IP:XXXX

But this setup sometimes returns a binding error as:

bind: cannot assign requested address

and sometimes the server error as:

listen tcp: lookup MY_POD_IP: server misbehaving

If I replace the MY_POD_IP with the actual pod IP, the setup works fine, but since this pod IP is generated dynamically in every deployment, I need to have a general solution to assign this IP to my argument. Any idea or workaround?

Thank you in advance.