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Kubernetes Missing Readiness/Liveness Probe Companion

Free

Kubernetes Tooling

Warning on any container entry in a Kubernetes workload manifest (Deployment, Pod, StatefulSet, DaemonSet) with no readinessProbe: and/or no livenessProbe:. Without a readiness probe, Kubernetes can't take a sick pod out of the load balancer: real traffic keeps being routed to a broken instance. Without a liveness probe, a hung (not crashed) process is never automatically restarted. Both are

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The gap it fixes

Kubernetes never requires either probe — a manifest with neither is perfectly valid YAML and deploys without a single warning, but it's a well-documented anti-pattern with real production consequences. Nothing in the IDE flags it today.

Facts and pricing

Category
DevOps
Pricing
Free
Platform
IntelliJ-family
First published
2026-09-02
Marketplace ID
#34018
Repository
k8s-readiness-liveness-probe-companion
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