Liveness & readiness probes in Kubernetes

Bruno Delb
Open DevOps Academy
3 min readJan 6, 2023

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In this story, I talk about liveness & readiness probes in Kubernetes :

  • Liveness and readiness probes,
  • Examples,
  • Best practices.

Liveness and readiness probes

Liveness probes are used to determine if a container is running as expected. If it fails, the container is restarted.

Readiness probes are used to determine when a container is ready to start accepting traffic. A container will not receive traffic until it…

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