We deploy our dockerized java applications to our various environments via kubernetes. We have a need to provide the podID to each docker container inside the pod.

Update: so I should have been more clear. I know already from this handy link from an old posting Downward API , that I can retrieve the podID value during configuration of deploying container this way:

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

My question is how can I either pass this id to the docker container, OR, just as good, is there a way the container can retrieve this information from it's kubernetes context/environment?

Thanks for any insights