Improving Application Stability with K8s Health Checks: Start-up, Liveness & Readiness Probes

A health check is when a tool checks its components and dependencies to ensure things are working as they should. Kubernetes provides a health-checking mechanism to verify if a container within a pod is working.

In Kubernetes, there are 3 kinds of health checks: start-up probes, liveness probes, and readiness probes. In this Tech Talk, we will dive into:

- A background on Kubernetes & Health Checks

- The main types of Health checks

- How to configure Kubernetes Probes for your applications

- Common pitfalls when using Kubernetes Probes