Container Health

Definitions

1. The observed readiness and liveness state of a containerized workload, typically based on probes or checks that determine whether it is functioning correctly and able to serve traffic. Container health signals are central to orchestration because they drive restarts, load balancing, and rollout behavior.

   In plain English: Whether a running container is actually healthy and ready to do its job.

   Example: "The rollout flapped because the container health check marked pods ready before the app had warmed its caches and established database connections."

Related Terms

• Background Process
• Batch Operation
• Container Lifecycle
• Container Limit
• Container Log
• Container Monitor
• Container Probe
• Container Restart
• Container Shell