Health Checks & Readiness/Liveness Probes — Roadmap Step & Resources
Telling an orchestrator when a service is ready for traffic vs needs to be restarted
- Level: advanced
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: Java + Spring Boot
Before this step
Study resources
- Health Information (Article) — The official Spring Boot documentation on the Actuator health endpoint used for readiness/liveness probes.
- Kubernetes Health Probes Explained (Video) — TechWorld with Nana's Kubernetes course covers readiness and liveness probes.
Part of
- Production Best Practices & Observability — section
- Java + Spring Boot roadmap — the full learning path