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Certified Kubernetes Application Developer CKAD (Kubernetes v1.35 curriculum) · Domain 3: Application Observability and Maintenance

What each probe failure does: restart the container vs remove the Pod from Service endpoints

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Last reviewed September 25, 2026 · Leer en español

The three probe types differ most in what happens when they fail. Mixing them up leads to either needless restarts or traffic sent to Pods that cannot handle it, so the exam tests these consequences directly.

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