How to connect http response to readiness and liveness probes

Question

I try to restart the pod when an endpoint returns an HTTP 500 on the /health endpoint. The service, probe-pod, should never send traffic to the pod while it is failing.

• The application needs to has an endpoint /start, which will indicate if it can accept traffic by returning an HTTP 200. If the endpoint returns an HTTP 500, the application has not finished initialization
• The application needs to have another endpoint /health that will indicate if the application is still working as expected by returning an HTTP 200. If the endpoint returns an HTTP 500 the application is no longer responsive.
• The probes should use port 8080

I know how the readiness and liveness probe works but how to connect their response base of output? I can't solve the first and second items. How could I test the solution? Could anyone help me?

Answer 1

The following way you can choose I guess, also refer to this link for clarity

 livenessProbe:
      httpGet:
        path: /health
        port: 8080
      initialDelaySeconds: as-required-by-you
    
 readinessProbe:
      httpGet:
        path: /start
        port: 8080