How to Render a K8s Pod Unavailable With Readiness Probes
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6 min readDec 27, 2021
The Kubernetes documentation defines Readiness Probes with a potential application-level requirement:
an application might need to load large data or configuration files during startup or depend on external services after startup.
This article walks through a simple proof of concept of the latter use case, depending on an external service after startup, to effectively demonstrate how readiness probes operate.
