Orchestration Core
Config, secrets & health probes
Lesson 4 of 5
Externalize configuration with ConfigMaps and Secrets, and let liveness and readiness probes decide which Pods restart and which receive traffic.
What you'll learn
- Separate configuration and credentials from images via ConfigMaps and Secrets
- Distinguish liveness (restart) from readiness (route) probes
- Understand why readiness — not liveness — gates whether a Pod gets traffic
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