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Readiness probe

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In software engineering, readiness probe means: In Kubernetes, a check used to determine whether a container is ready to receive service traffic.

In Turkish: hazır olma yoklaması

How it is used

Used in pod configuration. A failed readiness check can stop service traffic without itself restarting the container.

Example sentences

  1. The readiness probe stayed unsuccessful until the application's cache had loaded.

    The process can be running while still unable to serve useful requests.

  2. A failed readiness probe removed the pod from service endpoints during maintenance.

    Traffic eligibility changes without implying that the container must be killed.

Common collocations

  • configure a readiness probe
  • readiness probe failure
  • health checkA regular automatic test, often a request to a special URL such as /health, that checks whether a server or service is working and able to take traffic.
  • podThe smallest unit that Kubernetes runs: one or more containers that are always placed together on the same node and share a network address and storage.

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