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Kubernetes Health Probes

Kubelet-executed checks with three distinct roles: liveness failures restart the container, readiness failures remove the Pod from Service endpoints without restarting it, and startup probes suspend the other two until slow-booting apps come up. Conflating liveness with readiness is the classic cause of restart storms.

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Kubelet-executed checks with three distinct roles: liveness failures restart the container, readiness failures remove the Pod from Service endpoints without restarting it, and startup probes suspend the other two until slow-booting apps come up. Conflating liveness with readiness is the classic cause of restart storms.

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