💭 Configure Liveness, Readiness And Startup Probes | Kubernetes
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What is the difference between health, liveness, readiness, and startup? This article does a great job at a full writeup description of how it works in kubernetes, here is my TLDR.
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health 200 OK - I'm still responding to requests
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health ERR - something happened and I cant respond to requests
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liveness 200 OK - I'm ready for more work
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liveness ERR - I'm still responding to requests, and i'm already working send requests to another pod, or scale up
Z-pages
These probes are commonly deployed at /healthz and /livez endpoints.
Why the z?
z is a convention that comes from google for meta endpoints to reduce conflict with actual endpoints, and can be deployed to any application.
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