[wildfly-dev] A look at Eclipse MicroProfile Healthcheck

[Rob Cernich]

> On 6 Jul 2017, at 16:13, Rob Cernich wrote:
> > Regarding the probes, three states would be best, if you can swing it,
> > as OpenShift defines two probe types: liveness and readiness.  Live is
> > running, but unable to handle requests, while ready means it's running
> > and able to handle requests.  For example, while the server is
> > initializing, it's alive, but not ready.  Something to think about.
> 
> OpenShift / Kube only cares about up down.
> So instead of three states, there should be a parameter
> to the endpoint ?ready to indicate that the readiness
> HCP is queried and not the liveliness (or the other
> way around).
> 

It cares about live and ready.  Dead implies not ready.  Not ready does not imply dead.