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Probes and Health Check

Support for Kubernetes Probes

Liveness, Readiness, and Startup Probes

Liveness, Readiness, and Startup probes are well-known methods to detect Pod health in Kubernetes. They are used in regular uptime monitoring and enable initial startup health that allows rolling deploys of new service updates.
The example below will define Liveness, Readiness, and Startup probes to one service deployment.
While creating a deployment, provide the below configuration to set up probes for your service.
Other Container Config
# setup http livenessProbe
# To perform a probe, the kubelet sends an HTTPGET request
# Service is considered healthy when /healthz retuns success code
livenessProbe:
httpGet:
path: /healthz #endpoint path
port: 8080
initialDelaySeconds: 3 #first Liveness check to be performed after 3 seconds.
periodSeconds: 3 #verify the liveness of the application every 3 seconds
# setup http readinessProbe
readinessProbe:
httpGet:
path: /healthz
port: 8080
initialDelaySeconds: 5
periodSeconds: 5
# setup http startupProbe
startupProbe:
initialDelaySeconds: 1
periodSeconds: 5
timeoutSeconds: 1
successThreshold: 1
failureThreshold: 1
exec:
command:
- cat
- /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
Other Container Config
In addition to the httpGet example, TCP Probes can be configured from the Other Container Config field:
readinessProbe:
tcpSocket:
port: 8080
initialDelaySeconds: 5
periodSeconds: 10
livenessProbe:
tcpSocket:
port: 8080
initialDelaySeconds: 15
periodSeconds: 20
startupProbe:
tcpSocket:
port: 8080
failureThreshold: 30
periodSeconds: 10
Complete details of this feature are available in the Kubernetes documentation here.

Health Check

Enable Kubernetes Health by adding a Load Balancer Listener with Health Check enabled.