The two probes enabled in Kubernetes are the liveness probe and readiness Probe. They are complimentary, but different in intent and usage, and can be defined for each container within a Pod. In both cases, they provide a means for your code to influence how Kubernetes manages the containers.
Probes
Liveness probe
The most basic probe is the Liveness probe. If defined, it provides a command or URL that Kubernetes can use to determine whether a Pod is still operational. If the call succeeds, Kubernetes will assume the container is healthy; if it fails to respond, then the Pod can be handled as the restartPolicy is defined. The result is binary: either the probe succeeds, and Kubernetes believes your Pod is running...