Configuring Probes in Kubernetes for a BusinessWorks Container Edition Application

Alex Vazquez
7 min readMay 20, 2019
Photo by Blake Wisz on Unsplash

Introduction

Probes are how we’re able to say to Kubernetes that everything inside the pod is working as expected. Kubernetes has no way to know what’s happening inside at the fine-grained and has no way to know for each container if it is healthy or not, that’s why they need help from the container itself.

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Alex Vazquez

PSG Senior Architect at TIBCO Software with a focus on Cloud Development, Event Processing and Enterprise Integration