Kubernetes 1.35, as you may know, introduced in-place Pod restarts (alpha). It's a real reset: all containers, init and sidecars included - without killing the Pod or kicking off a reschedule. Think restart without the cloud drama.
Big win for workloads with heavy inter-container dependencies or massive AI/ML stacks. No more tossing the whole Pod just to clean house. It leans on extended Container Restart Rules and adds a new Pod condition for tracking.
