Health Checks with ASP.NET Core and Kubernetes

Health checks are a fundamental part of our APIs. I guess they fall in that category of “non-functional-but-heavily-required” things. More or less like a good part of the infrastructure code.

They don’t add business value per se but have an enormous impact for those in IT, like DDD and design patterns. You can normally see them in conjunction with container orchestration or monitoring tools to ensure that the system is alive and kicking.

Health checks are a fundamental part of our APIs. I guess they fall in that category of “non-functional-but-heavily-required” things. More or less like a good part of the infrastructure code.
They don’t add business value per se but have an enormous impact for those in IT, like DDD and design patterns. You can normally see them in conjunction with container orchestration or monitoring tools to ensure that the system is alive and kicking. […]