Container Probe

Definitions

1. A health or readiness check run against a container to determine whether it is alive, ready to serve traffic, or successfully initialized. Container probes are a core orchestration feature because they influence routing, restarts, and rollout safety.

   In plain English: A check used to see whether a container is healthy or ready.

   Example: "The rollout stabilized once they split one overloaded health endpoint into separate startup and readiness container probes."

Related Terms

• Application Container
• Base Image
• Cloud Container
• Container Build
• Container Cluster
• Container Compose
• Container Daemon
• Container Health