diff --git a/content/en/blog/_posts/2018-10-01-health-checking-grpc.md b/content/en/blog/_posts/2018-10-01-health-checking-grpc.md index e6e584b274..7fbde70524 100644 --- a/content/en/blog/_posts/2018-10-01-health-checking-grpc.md +++ b/content/en/blog/_posts/2018-10-01-health-checking-grpc.md @@ -4,10 +4,12 @@ title: 'Health checking gRPC servers on Kubernetes' date: 2018-10-01 --- -_Built-in gRPC probes were introduced in Kubernetes 1.23. To learn more, see [Configure Liveness, Readiness and Startup Probes](/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-liveness-readiness-startup-probes/#define-a-grpc-liveness-probe)._ - **Author**: [Ahmet Alp Balkan](https://twitter.com/ahmetb) (Google) +**Update (December 2021):** _Kubernetes now has built-in gRPC health probes starting in v1.23. +To learn more, see [Configure Liveness, Readiness and Startup Probes](/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-liveness-readiness-startup-probes/#define-a-grpc-liveness-probe). +This article was originally written about an external tool to achieve the same task._ + [gRPC](https://grpc.io) is on its way to becoming the lingua franca for communication between cloud-native microservices. If you are deploying gRPC applications to Kubernetes today, you may be wondering about the best way to