ingress-controller-add-health-probes.md

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Add health probes to your AKS pods	This article provides information on how to add health probes (readiness and/or liveness) to AKS pods with an Application Gateway.	application-gateway	caya	application-gateway	how-to	11/4/2019	caya

Add Health Probes to your service

By default, Ingress controller will provision an HTTP GET probe for the exposed pods. The probe properties can be customized by adding a Readiness or Liveness Probe to your deployment/pod spec.

With readinessProbe or livenessProbe

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: aspnetapp
spec:
  replicas: 3
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        service: site
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: aspnetapp
        image: mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/samples:aspnetapp
        imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
        ports:
        - containerPort: 80
        readinessProbe:
          httpGet:
            path: /
            port: 80
          periodSeconds: 3
          timeoutSeconds: 1

Kubernetes API Reference:

• Container Probes

Note

• readinessProbe and livenessProbe are supported when configured with httpGet.
• Probing on a port other than the one exposed on the pod is currently not supported.
• HttpHeaders, InitialDelaySeconds, SuccessThreshold are not supported.

Without readinessProbe or livenessProbe

If the above probes are not provided, then Ingress Controller make an assumption that the service is reachable on Path specified for backend-path-prefix annotation or the path specified in the ingress definition for the service.

Default Values for Health Probe

For any property that can not be inferred by the readiness/liveness probe, Default values are set.

Application Gateway Probe Property	Default Value
Path	/
Host	localhost
Protocol	HTTP
Timeout	30
Interval	30
UnhealthyThreshold	3