K8s on Devops Monkhttps://devops-monk.com/tags/k8s/Recent content in K8s on Devops MonkHugoen-usSun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000Spring Boot on Kubernetes: Health Checks, Graceful Shutdown, and Config Managementhttps://devops-monk.com/2026/05/spring-boot-kubernetes-guide/Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://devops-monk.com/2026/05/spring-boot-kubernetes-guide/Running Spring Boot on Kubernetes is not just packaging the app in a container and deploying it. You need to configure health probes correctly, handle graceful shutdown so in-flight requests don’t get dropped, manage configuration without baking secrets into images, and make sure the JVM respects container memory limits. This guide covers the production-critical Kubernetes configuration for Spring Boot applications. Health Probes Kubernetes uses three probe types to manage pod lifecycle: