How to Implement Health Checks and Readiness Probes in ASP.NET Core 10 for Kubernetes (2026)
In Kubernetes, readiness determines whether a Pod should receive traffic. Liveness determines whether the kubelet should restart a container. A startup probe gives an application time to initialize before those checks begin. In ASP.NET Core, use separate endpoints so a SQL Server outage can remove an unready replica from service without causing a restart loop.