Kubernetes Readiness Probes - Examples & Common Pitfalls

Kubernetes Readiness Probes - Examples & Common Pitfalls

Originally posted at Loft Labs Blog. © All rights belong to Loft Labs, Inc.

This is one of the posts I have written for Loft Labs, Inc.

Kubernetes is a great platform to deploy our microservices and applications. One of the excellent features is that pods are restarted or removed from a service when they don’t work correctly. Kubernetes needs our help to understand if a pod is working or not. This is configured via Container Probes.

Any application can be in an unhealthy state due to bugs, missing dependencies on external resources, and so on. To make sure our traffic flows correctly, we need to make sure probes are configured.

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