Lightning Talk: Slow Starting Containers, How to Check Their Health?

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Kubernetes liveness probes cause restart loops for slow-starting Java servers when default initialDelaySeconds and failureThreshold are too short, and increasing delays hides crashes or slows deadlock recovery. A proposed concrete fix adds a third starter probe that keeps readiness/liveness checks disabled until startup completes; it’s specified as KEP (CAP 950) sponsored by SIG Node after months of community iteration and targets inclusion in the next Kubernetes release.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:18Container probes bifecta
3. 2:04Long initialDelay Seconds: second start + deadlock
4. 3:08Strategies overview
5. 3:26Container probes trifecta

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