13HEALTH PROBES
Having a reliable application is about more than just keeping application components running. Application components also need to be able to respond to requests in a timely way and get data from and make requests of dependencies. This means that the definition of a “healthy” application component is different for each individual component.
At the same time, Kubernetes needs to know when a Pod and its containers are healthy so that it can route traffic to only healthy containers and replace failed ones. For this reason, Kubernetes allows configuration of custom health checks for containers and integrates those health checks into ...
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