I don’t think that would work because you would need to drop in the new binary and restart the program and as soon as you kill the program it will kill the container and bounce the pod. Moreover, my app is just a static binary with some certs on a scratch image, so I can’t even `kubectl cp` the binary because that depends on a tar binary on your container.

I think I would need to run some sshd program on the binary and use a reverse SSH tunnel from my laptop, but that requires me to expose an SSH port on the pod which isn’t a big concern, but it’s just a grind to get it all working end to end.