About Readiness Probes for TimesTen Containers

A Kubernetes readiness probe enables Kubernetes to determine whether a particular application is ready. For example, consider an application that has to perform a lengthy startup procedure. When the application is first started by Kubernetes, it is not immediately ready. It cannot handle requests or workloads until the startup procedure is complete.

The TimesTen Kubernetes Operator (TimesTen Operator) provides different definitions of ready for TimesTen (tt) containers and defines readiness probes based on these definitions. This applies to replicated and non-replicated configurations. The following sections discuss these readiness probes for replicated and non-replicated configurations: