Setting up readiness and liveness health-check probes in Kubernetes with SpringBoot

Eugen Hoble
6 min readOct 14, 2022
Readiness and Liveness health-check probes in Kubernetes with SpringBoot

The samples in this article are using minikube. An example of how minikube can be installed on a Linux Mint machine, can be found here.

Liveness

Kubernetes uses liveness probes to know when to restart a container. For example, liveness probes could catch a deadlock, where an application is running…

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