KUBERNETES-BASICS5 MIN READ
Quick deck: probes under pressure
Recall startup, liveness, and readiness probe purposes.
SLR What probe order should you remember? Startup, Liveness, Readiness Liveness versus readiness The action differs, so the endpoint meaning must differ. 'Just make readiness always pass so deploys are green.' Release pressure Answer Green readiness means traffic eligibility. If it always passes, we route users to Pods that may not serve them. Do not treat readiness as a dashboard color. It names the user-facing consequence. What probe protects slow warm-up? Startup probe. It delays liveness judgment while normal initialization completes.
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