Understanding Kubernetes Probes

Yitaek Hwang
Dev Genius
Published in
7 min readAug 2, 2020

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Configuring readiness, liveness, and startup probes to detect and deal with unhealthy pods.

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One of the challenges with distributed systems and microservices architecture is automatically detecting unhealthy applications, rerouting requests to other available systems, and restoring the broken components. Health checks are one way to address this challenge and ensure reliability. With Kubernetes, health checks…

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