Dashboard pod status not reported correctly for pods using native sidecar containers

[brentmjohnson]

What happened?

Pod status in the dashboard showing "Init: x/y" instead of "Running":

Correct pod status shown in kubectl cli:

What did you expect to happen?

Pod status should show "Running" if all containers (including native sidecar containers) are ready.

How can we reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible)?

1. Use the example here: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/sidecar-containers/#sidecar-example
2. Observe the "Init: x/y" status in the dashboard
3. Replace the deployment definition with the below - converting to a standard init container
4. Observe the "Running" status in the dashboard

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  namespace: kube-system
  name: myapp
  labels:
    app: myapp
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: myapp
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: myapp
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: myapp
          image: alpine:latest
          command: ['sh', '-c', 'while true; do echo "logging" >> /opt/logs.txt; sleep 1; done']
          volumeMounts:
            - name: data
              mountPath: /opt
      initContainers:
        - name: logshipper
          image: alpine:latest
          # restartPolicy: Always
          # command: ['sh', '-c', 'tail -F /opt/logs.txt']
          command: ['sh', '-c', 'sleep 1']
          volumeMounts:
            - name: data
              mountPath: /opt
      volumes:
        - name: data
          emptyDir: {}

Anything else we need to know?

No response

What browsers are you seeing the problem on?

Microsoft Edge

Kubernetes Dashboard version

helm.sh/chart: kubernetes-dashboard-7.5.0

Kubernetes version

Client Version: v1.29.4 Kustomize Version: v5.0.4-0.20230601165947-6ce0bf390ce3 Server Version: v1.29.3

Dev environment

No response

[floreks]

Thanks for the detailed report and YAML to reproduce. It will be easier to fix. We will take care of that soon.