Chapter 1. Overview of the sidecar container

Cryostat supports sidecar containers, which you can use to generate automated analysis reports.

By generating automated analysis reports in the sidecar report container, you can efficiently use the Red Hat build of Cryostat Operator to provision resources for your Cryostat application. This provides your Cryostat container with a lower resource footprint, because the Cryostat instance that interacts with the target applications can focus on running low-overhead operations over HTTP and JMX connections. It means that you do not have to rely on the main Cryostat container to generate resource-intensive automated analysis reports, which might otherwise impact performance and require you to provision additional resources.

Additionally, you can duplicate a sidecar report container and then configure this duplicated container to meet your needs.