140. Pod Health Indicator
Spring Boot uses HealthIndicator to expose info about the health of an application. That makes it really useful for exposing health related information to the user and are also a good fit for use as readiness probes .
The Kubernetes health indicator which is part of the core module exposes the following info:
- pod name, ip address, namespace, service account, node name and its ip address
- flag that indicates if the Spring Boot application is internal or external to Kubernetes
