A self-healing mechanism automatically detects defined failures or unhealthy operating conditions and performs recovery actions. In a container platform, it supports high-availability services by using Kubernetes-native liveness and readiness checks together with workload rescheduling. section 16.1
A self-healing deployment typically provides:
- Health checks that distinguish whether a service is alive and whether it is ready to receive work. section 16.1
- Automated recovery for common failures, including rescheduling workloads onto better operating nodes. section 16.1
- Declarative infrastructure and programmatic rollout, allowing recovery behavior to be managed as part of the platform. section 15.1
