Lab2 (Spring Boot/K8S): Kubernetes health probes with Spring Boot

Hello Devs! In this story, we’ll show how Kubernetes checks a Spring boot application's health.

· Overview
∘ Probes Check mechanisms
∘ Probe outcome
∘ Types of probe
· How does it work with Spring Boot?
∘ Spring Boot Actuator
∘ Kubernetes deployment
∘ Deploy the container image to Kubernetes
· Conclusion
· References

This series of stories shows how to use Kubernetes in the Spring ecosystem. We work with a Spring boot API and Minikube to have a lightweight and fast development environment similar to production.

• Lab1 (Spring Boot/K8S): Deploy Spring Boot application on Kubernetes
• 👉 Lab2 (Spring Boot/K8S): Kubernetes health probes with Spring Boot

In the previous lab, we containerized and deployed a Spring Boot API to a Kubernetes cluster using Minikube. In this story, we’ll look at how to configure our Spring Boot API to use Kubernetes Probes.

Overview

Health checks are a way to query the status of the running application, such as whether the…