Health Checks for Services, #containers and Daemons
▻https://hackernoon.com/health-checks-for-services-containers-and-daemons-7f326a66430e?source=rs
▻https://medium.com/media/a6b1fc7512f3bfedaf47f154db36270b/hrefJon Christensen and Chris Hickman of Kelsus discuss health checks for services, containers, and daemons. They use them to keep Kelsus’s distributed systems and services functioning.Some of the highlights of the show include:Health Checks: A first line of defense when running any software in production from an operational standpoint to detect errors and identify when a service needs to be recreatedHealth checks involve something hitting an endpoint to execute application code and determine if it’s responding on that port and back to itTwo main types of health checks: Shallow: Use service code to create new endpoint; goes through frontend, routes to your code, executes code, and returns a response that signifies success. Deep: (...)