The most basic probe is the Liveness probe. If defined, it provides a command or URL that Kubernetes can use to determine whether a Pod is still operational. If the call succeeds, Kubernetes will assume the container is healthy; if it fails to respond, then the Pod can be handled as the restartPolicy is defined. The result is binary: either the probe succeeds, and Kubernetes believes your Pod is running, or it fails, so Kubernetes believes your Pod is no longer functional. In the latter case, it will check with the defined RestartPolicy to choose what to do.
The default value for restartPolicy is Always, meaning if a container within the Pod fails, Kubernetes will always attempt to restart it. Other values that you can define ...
