The kubelet usesliveness probes to know when to restart a container. For example, livenessprobes could catch a deadlock, where an application is running, but unable tomake progress. Restarting a container in such a state can help to make theapplication more available despite bugs.
A common pattern for liveness probes is to use the same low-cost HTTP endpointas for readiness probes, but with a higher failureThreshold. This ensures that the podis observed as not-ready for some period of time before it is hard killed.
The kubelet uses readiness probes to know when a container is ready to startaccepting traffic. A Pod is considered ready when all of its containers are ready.One use of this signal is to control which Pods are used as backends for Services.When a Pod is not ready, it is removed from Service load balancers.
The kubelet uses startup probes to know when a container application has started.If such a probe is configured, liveness and readiness probes do not start untilit succeeds, making sure those probes don't interfere with the application startup.This can be used to adopt liveness checks on slow starting containers, avoiding themgetting killed by the kubelet before they are up and running.
You need to have a Kubernetes cluster, and the kubectl command-line tool mustbe configured to communicate with your cluster. It is recommended to run this tutorial on a cluster with at least two nodes that are not acting as control plane hosts. If you do not already have acluster, you can create one by usingminikubeor you can use one of these Kubernetes playgrounds:
Many applications running for long periods of time eventually transition tobroken states, and cannot recover except by being restarted. Kubernetes providesliveness probes to detect and remedy such situations.
In the configuration file, you can see that the Pod has a single Container.The periodSeconds field specifies that the kubelet should perform a livenessprobe every 5 seconds. The initialDelaySeconds field tells the kubelet that itshould wait 5 seconds before performing the first probe. To perform a probe, thekubelet executes the command cat /tmp/healthy in the target container. If thecommand succeeds, it returns 0, and the kubelet considers the container to be alive andhealthy. If the command returns a non-zero value, the kubelet kills the containerand restarts it.
For the first 30 seconds of the container's life, there is a /tmp/healthy file.So during the first 30 seconds, the command cat /tmp/healthy returns a successcode. After 30 seconds, cat /tmp/healthy returns a failure code.
In the configuration file, you can see that the Pod has a single container.The periodSeconds field specifies that the kubelet should perform a livenessprobe every 3 seconds. The initialDelaySeconds field tells the kubelet that itshould wait 3 seconds before performing the first probe. To perform a probe, thekubelet sends an HTTP GET request to the server that is running in the containerand listening on port 8080. If the handler for the server's /healthz pathreturns a success code, the kubelet considers the container to be alive andhealthy. If the handler returns a failure code, the kubelet kills the containerand restarts it.
The kubelet starts performing health checks 3 seconds after the container starts.So the first couple of health checks will succeed. But after 10 seconds, the healthchecks will fail, and the kubelet will kill and restart the container.
A third type of liveness probe uses a TCP socket. With this configuration, thekubelet will attempt to open a socket to your container on the specified port.If it can establish a connection, the container is considered healthy, if itcan't it is considered a failure.
As you can see, configuration for a TCP check is quite similar to an HTTP check.This example uses both readiness and liveness probes. The kubelet will send thefirst readiness probe 15 seconds after the container starts. This will attempt toconnect to the goproxy container on port 8080. If the probe succeeds, the Podwill be marked as ready. The kubelet will continue to run this check every 10seconds.
In addition to the readiness probe, this configuration includes a liveness probe.The kubelet will run the first liveness probe 15 seconds after the containerstarts. Similar to the readiness probe, this will attempt to connect to thegoproxy container on port 8080. If the liveness probe fails, the containerwill be restarted.
If your application implements thegRPC Health Checking Protocol,this example shows how to configure Kubernetes to use it for application liveness checks.Similarly you can configure readiness and startup probes.
To use a gRPC probe, port must be configured. If you want to distinguish probes of different typesand probes for different features you can use the service field.You can set service to the value liveness and make your gRPC Health Checking endpointrespond to this request differently than when you set service set to readiness.This lets you use the same endpoint for different kinds of container health checkrather than listening on two different ports.If you want to specify your own custom service name and also specify a probe type,the Kubernetes project recommends that you use a name that concatenatesthose. For example: myservice-liveness (using - as a separator).
Sometimes, you have to deal with legacy applications that might requirean additional startup time on their first initialization.In such cases, it can be tricky to set up liveness probe parameters withoutcompromising the fast response to deadlocks that motivated such a probe.The trick is to set up a startup probe with the same command, HTTP or TCPcheck, with a failureThreshold * periodSeconds long enough to cover theworst case startup time.
Thanks to the startup probe, the application will have a maximum of 5 minutes(30 * 10 = 300s) to finish its startup.Once the startup probe has succeeded once, the liveness probe takes over toprovide a fast response to container deadlocks.If the startup probe never succeeds, the container is killed after 300s andsubject to the pod's restartPolicy.
Sometimes, applications are temporarily unable to serve traffic.For example, an application might need to load large data or configurationfiles during startup, or depend on external services after startup.In such cases, you don't want to kill the application,but you don't want to send it requests either. Kubernetes providesreadiness probes to detect and mitigate these situations. A pod with containersreporting that they are not ready does not receive traffic through KubernetesServices.
Readiness and liveness probes can be used in parallel for the same container.Using both can ensure that traffic does not reach a container that is not readyfor it, and that containers are restarted when they fail.
For an HTTP probe, the kubelet sends an HTTP request to the specified port andpath to perform the check. The kubelet sends the probe to the Pod's IP address,unless the address is overridden by the optional host field in httpGet. Ifscheme field is set to HTTPS, the kubelet sends an HTTPS request skipping thecertificate verification. In most scenarios, you do not want to set the host field.Here's one scenario where you would set it. Suppose the container listens on 127.0.0.1and the Pod's hostNetwork field is true. Then host, under httpGet, should be setto 127.0.0.1. If your pod relies on virtual hosts, which is probably the more commoncase, you should not use host, but rather set the Host header in httpHeaders.
When the kubelet probes a Pod using HTTP, it only follows redirects if the redirect
is to the same host. If the kubelet receives 11 or more redirects during probing, the probe is considered successfuland a related Event is created:
In 1.25 and above, users can specify a probe-level terminationGracePeriodSecondsas part of the probe specification. When both a pod- and probe-levelterminationGracePeriodSeconds are set, the kubelet will use the probe-level value.
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