healthz

healthz

A tiny & extremely simple to use package for Kubernetes liveness/readiness/termination checks.

Use

For full examples see the examples folder.

Init

In your init or at the begging of your main function include:

h := healthz.NewCheck(healthz.OptionsLivePath("live"),
	healthz.OptionsReadyPath("ready"), healthz.OptionsPort("8080"))

go func() {
	if err := h.Start(); err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
}()

It is a blocking function.

Defining healthz.NewCheck() arguments is optional. If nothing's set ie. healthz.NewCheck("", "", "") the above default values will be used.

Kubernetes config excerpt:

...
        livenessProbe:
          httpGet:
            path: /live
            port: 8080
          initialDelaySeconds: 30
          periodSeconds: 60
          timeoutSeconds: 5
          failureThreshold: 6
          successThreshold: 1
        startupProbe:
          httpGet:
            path: /live
            port: 8080
          failureThreshold: 15
          periodSeconds: 5
...

Ready & NotReady

Ready

The default state is NotReady. When your application is ready to service requests you should set it to:

hc.Ready()

NotReady

If your application stops being able to server requests and you wish to let Kubernetes proceed to the appropriate action based on restartPolicy (either wait or restart the container) you can achieve that by setting:

hc.NotReady()

Kubernetes config excerpt:

...
        readinessProbe:
          httpGet:
            path: /ready
            port: 8080
          initialDelaySeconds: 5
          periodSeconds: 5
          timeoutSeconds: 5
          failureThreshold: 6
          successThreshold: 1
...

Terminating

Kubernetes allows a grace period for any necessary clean up based on your terminationGracePeriodSeconds config setting.

if term := hc.Terminating(); term == true {
	// do some clean up
}

It is a blocking function.

Kubernetes config excerpt:

...
      terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 5
...

gRPC

The canonical way to achieve health checks with Kubernetes is to include grpc-health-probe along your dockerized gRPC app.

FROM alpine:3.9
RUN apk add wget
RUN GRPC_HEALTH_PROBE_VERSION=v0.3.0 && \
    wget -qO/bin/grpc_health_probe https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-health-probe/releases/download/${GRPC_HEALTH_PROBE_VERSION}/grpc_health_probe-linux-amd64 
RUN chmod +x /bin/grpc_health_probe  

Init

import healthz "github.com/bh90210/healthz/grpc"

func main() {
hc := healthz.NewCheckGRPC("live", "ready", "5000")

go func() {
	if err := hc.Start(); err != nil {
		// do some error handling
	}
}()
}

Kubernetes config excerpt:

...
    readinessProbe:
      exec:
        command: ["/bin/grpc_health_probe", "-addr=:5000"]
      initialDelaySeconds: 5
    livenessProbe:
      exec:
        command: ["/bin/grpc_health_probe", "-addr=:5000"]
      initialDelaySeconds: 10
...

Readiness & Terminating

Readiness is section is similar to HTTP. User can utilize hc.Ready() & hc.NotReady() API to designate the state of the app when probed by Kubernetes.

If user opts to also use the Terminating API with gRPC an HTTP server will start.

Contributing

We are using a feature request workflow. Fork the repo create a new branch ie fix/http or feat/newfeature and make a PR against main branch.

References

1. https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/10/01/health-checking-grpc-servers-on-kubernetes/
2. https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-liveness-readiness-startup-probes/
3. https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-health-probe/
4. https://pkg.go.dev/google.golang.org/grpc/health/grpc_health_v1?utm_source=godoc
5. https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/11/10/you-probably-need-liveness-and-readiness-probes#example_4__putting_it_all_together
6. https://github.com/americanexpress/grpc-k8s-health-check