I have an application that I deploy on Kubernetes.

This application has 5 replicas and I'm doing a rolling update on each deployment.

This application has a graceful shutdown which can take tens of minutes (it has to wait for running tasks to finish).

My problem is that during updates,all the older version pods are stuck at "Terminating" status while all the new pods are created.

During the updates, I end up running with 8 containers and it is something I'm trying to avoid.

The behaviour I'm trying to get is that new pods will only get created after the old version pods terminated successfully, so at all times I'm not exceeding the number of replicas I set.

I wonder if there is a way to achieve such behaviour.