Set host header for livenessProbe and readinessProbe

2 min read | by Jordi Prats

Some apps might rely on the host Header to deliver the right content. For example, is quite common for django apps to require an specific host header in order to sent a response. Lucky enough for these kind of applications, we can actually configure livenessProbe and readinessProbe to send a Host header

To do se we will have to set the httpHeaders attribute with the list of headers we can to sent, for the Host header it would be:

livenessProbe:
  httpGet:
    path: /health-check/
    port: 8000
    httpHeaders:
    - name: Host
      value: "pet2cattle-com"

We can also use it to set custom headers or even repeat headers multiple times. A full example with livenessProbe and readinessProbe on a Deployment would be:

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: pet2cattle
spec:
(...)
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: pet2cattle
        image: pet2cattle:3.6
        ports:
        - containerPort: 8000
          name: http
          protocol: TCP
        livenessProbe:
          httpGet:
            httpHeaders:
            - name: Host
              value: pet2cattle.com
            path: /health/liveness
            port: http
        readinessProbe:
          httpGet:
            httpHeaders:
            - name: Host
              value: pet2cattle.com
            path: /health/readiness
            port: http
(...)

Posted on 22/02/2021

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