title: Prevent back-off in kubernetes crash loop
body: <p>I have a pod with some terrible, buggy software in it. One reason Kubernetes is great is that it'll just restart the software when it crashes, which is awesome.</p>
  
  <p>Kubernetes was designed for good software, not terrible software, so it does an exponential backoff while restarting pods. This means I have to wait five minutes between crashes before my pods are restarted.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to cap the kubernetes backoff strategy? I'd like to change it to not wait longer than thirty seconds before starting up the pod again.</p>