Question

A team runs a web application in a Pod. Occasionally the application process deadlocks: it keeps running and holds its port open, but stops responding to any HTTP requests indefinitely. The team wants Kubernetes to automatically detect this hung state and restart the container to recover it. Which Pod configuration should they add?

Accepted Answer

A liveness probe that performs an HTTP GET against the application's health endpoint

Answer

A readiness probe that performs an HTTP GET against the application's health endpoint

Answer

A startup probe with a long failureThreshold to allow slow initialization

Answer

Set restartPolicy to Always so the kubelet restarts the container automatically