advancedSpring Boot on Kubernetes: Health Probes, Config, Scaling & Observability
What is the purpose of a startup probe vs a liveness probe?
The liveness probe runs throughout the Pod's lifetime to detect hangs and trigger restarts. The startup probe runs only during startup and gives the application time to initialize. Without a startup probe, the liveness probe's timeout applies from the first second, killing newly started Pods before they finish JVM warm-up, data loading, or connection pool establishment.
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