Lesson 05 · 14 min
Health and resources: probes, requests, limits, HPA
How Kubernetes knows the app is alive, and how much CPU and memory to give it.
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A process in a container can be running but not responding: it hung, got stuck in a deadlock, lost its database connection. Kubernetes will not notice on its own. That is what probes are for: the kubelet periodically checks the container with an HTTP request, a TCP connection, a command inside it or over gRPC.
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