Setting up readiness and liveness health-check probes in Kubernetes with SpringBoot
6 min readOct 14, 2022
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…