The earlier probe fix addressed slow /health responses under load, but the
restarts continued with a different signature: connection refused rather than
timeout, meaning the app was not listening yet. Ariadne runs migrations and
builds its cron schedule before binding, which can outlast what liveness
allows from initialDelaySeconds, so the kubelet kept restarting a pod that
was merely still starting.
Add a startupProbe granting up to five minutes to come up, after which
liveness takes over unchanged. This is the case startupProbe exists for.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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