Kubernetes Liveness & Readiness Probes Liveness Probe A Liveness probe indicates whether or not a container is healthy and is used by Kubernetes to determine when a container should be terminated and restarted. You define your own custom criteria for determining container health. For example, if your container is running a microservice, that application will likely have a HTTP health check endpoint. The health check endpoint can be used as the Liveness probe to determine the containers health status. In other words, if the microservice is deemed healthy, the container is healthy. The Pod definition below creates a file called health.txt and write it to [...]