A county GIS team wants pods that are still warming up to stay off Service traffic until they can serve requests. Which probe controls that behavior?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Readiness is the velvet rope at the club door—until the app says it is ready, the Service will not send it guests. Liveness is about restarting a stuck process, not about joining the endpoint list.
Full Explanation
Readiness probes determine whether a Pod's IP is included in the Endpoints or EndpointSlice for matching Services. Failures remove the Pod from load-balanced traffic without necessarily restarting the container. Liveness failures trigger restarts; startup probes gate when liveness/readiness begin for slow starters—but readiness is what gates Service traffic.