Kubernetes Probes as Failure Detectors: Semantics, Timing, and Cascading Risk Kubernetes probes are distributed-systems failure detectors with different control effects. A readiness failure removes a Pod from Service endpoints; a liveness failure asks the kubelet to restart the container. The d...
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