Kubernetes: Liveness vs Readiness Probes – Don’t Kill Your Traffic

If your pod is ‘Alive’ but not ‘Ready’ to serve traffic (e.g., still loading cache), K8s might send traffic to a black hole. Use Readiness Probes.

readinessProbe:
  httpGet:
    path: /health/ready
    port: 8080
  initialDelaySeconds: 5

Kubernetes: The Critical Difference Between Liveness and Readiness Probes

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