Thomas Sarmis • 10/26/2024

The Health-Checks Controversy

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This technical article delves into the implementation and potential pitfalls of health checks (liveness and readiness probes) in Kubernetes for software applications. It explains the controversy of marking an entire application unhealthy due to a non-critical dependency failure and proposes using a Kubernetes Startup Probe as a strategic solution to maintain both safety and availability.

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