Initium – A single Rust binary replacing scripts in K8s initContainers

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We got tired of debugging shell scripts in initContainers at 2 AM. Missing curl, broken netcat flags, secrets leaking into logs — the usual. Initium is a single static Rust binary (~5 MB, built FROM scratch) that handles the six things initContainers actually do: wait for dependencies, run migrations, seed databases, render config templates, fetch secrets, and exec commands. What it gives you over bash: Exponential backoff with jitter on all network ops (not sleep 5 && retry) Automatic secret redaction in logs (catches token, password, api_key, auth patterns) PSA restricted compatible out of the box — non-root, read-only filesystem, all capabilities dropped Declarative database seeding with cross-table references and idempotency Zero CVEs. No OS packages. No shell. Nothing to scan. It supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite. Config via CLI flags or INITIUM_* env vars. Multi-arch (amd64 + arm64). Apache 2.0. Written in Rust. https://github.com/KitStream/initium

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