Alive and Ready: The 2025 guide to Kubernetes Container Health

Tired of unexpected downtime? Frustrated when your deployments cause service disruptions? Our hands-on workshop “Alive and Ready” puts you in control of your application’s reliability. You’ll get equipped with the expertise to build resilient, self-healing applications that gracefully handle failures and deployments.

IS THIS FOR YOU?

• • You’re running applications in Kubernetes and want to improve their reliability
  • You’ve experienced mysterious container restarts or failed deployments
  • You’re striving for true zero-downtime deployments
  • You want to understand the full lifecycle of containers from startup to graceful shutdown

AFTER 60 MINUTES, YOU’LL BE CAPABLE OF:

• Commanding all 5 Kubernetes health management tools (liveness, readiness, startup probes + postStart, preStop hooks), knowing exactly when and how to use each one
• Designing robust health check strategies that prevent cascading failures, reduce downtime, and improve user experience
• Implementing production-ready patterns for graceful shutdowns, ensuring no requests are dropped during deployments or scaling events
• Diagnosing and fixing the top 10 misconfigurations that plague production environments

YOUR INSTRUCTOR:

Pascal van Dam is a seasoned Linux and Kubernetes architect with expertise in cloud technologies. As a certified Linux Foundation trainer and IT Gilde Guru, he excels at making complex concepts accessible through his straightforward teaching approach. Drawing from extensive government and enterprise experience, Pascal bridges technical solutions with business value, helping professionals master essential skills quickly.

HOW TO JOIN THIS SESSION?

This live session is completely free! – A limited-time opportunity before these “in an hour” sessions become exclusive to Living Open Source members.

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