kubeprobes

Simple and effective package for implementing Kubernetes liveness and readiness probes' handler.

Installation

go get -u pkg.icikowski.pl/kubeprobes

Usage

The package provides kubeprobes.New function which returns a probes handler of type kubeprobes.Kubeprobes, which is compliant with http.Handler interface.

The handler serves two endpoints, which are used to implement liveness and readiness probes by returning either 200 (healthy) or 503 (unhealthy) status:

• /live - endpoint for liveness probe;
• /ready - endpoint for readiness probe.

Default paths can be overriden with options described below. Accessing any other endpoint will return 404 status. In order to provide maximum performance, no body is ever returned.

The kubeprobes.New function accepts following options as arguments:

• kubeprobes.WithLivenessProbes(...) - adds particular probe functions to the list of liveness probes;
• kubeprobes.WithLivenessStatefulProbes(...) - adds particular StatefulProbes to the list of liveness probes;
• kubeprobes.WithLivenessPath("/some/liveness/path") - sets liveness probe path to given path (default is /live);
• kubeprobes.WithReadinessProbes(...) - adds particular probe functions to the list of readiness probes;
• kubeprobes.WithReadinessStatefulProbes(...) - adds particular StatefulProbes to the list of readiness probes;
• kubeprobes.WithReadinessPath("/some/readiness/path") - sets readiness probe path to given path (default is /ready).

Probes

In order to determine the state of particular element of application, probes need to be implemented either by creating status determining function or by using simple and thread-safe stateful probes.

Probe functions

Probe functions (objects of type ProbeFunction) are functions that performs user defined logic in order to determine whether the probe should be marked as healthy or not. Those functions should take no arguments and return error (if no error is returned, the probe is considered to be healthy; if error is returned, the probe is considered to be unhealthy).

someProbe := func() error {
    // Some logic here
    if somethingIsWrong {
        return errors.New("something is wrong")
    }
    return nil
}

someOtherProbe := func() error {
    // Always healthy
    return nil
} 

// Use functions in probes handler
kp, _ := kubeprobes.New(
    kubeprobes.WithLivenessProbes(someOtherProbe),
    kubeprobes.WithReadinessProbes(someProbe),
)

Stateful probes

Stateful probes (objects of type StatefulProbe) are objects that can be marked either as "up" (healthy) or "down" (unhealthy) and provide a ProbeFunction for easy integration. Those objects utilize sync.Mutex mechanism to provide thread-safety.

// Unhealthy by default
someProbe := kubeprobes.NewStatefulProbe()
someOtherProbe := kubeprobes.NewStatefulProbe()

// Use it in probes handler
kp, _ := kubeprobes.New(
    kubeprobes.WithLivenessStatefulProbes(someProbe),
    kubeprobes.WithReadinessStatefulProbes(someOtherProbe),
)

Direct handler access

It is possible to fetch http.Handlers for liveness & readiness probes from kubeprobes.Kubeprobes instance as follows:

kp, _ := kubeprobes.New(
    // ...
)

livenessHandler := kp.LivenessHandler()
readinessHandler := kp.ReadinessHandler()

Those handler can be used for manually mounting them on other servers/routers/muxes (eg. go-chi/chi, gorilla/mux, http's ServeMux etc.).

Example usage

// Create probe functions
appProbe := func() error {
    // Some logic for checking app status
    return nil
}

// Create stateful probes
live := kubeprobes.NewStatefulProbe() 
ready := kubeprobes.NewStatefulProbe()

// Prepare handler
kp, err := kubeprobes.New(
    kubeprobes.WithLivenessStatefulProbes(live),
    kubeprobes.WithReadinessStatefulProbes(ready),
    kubeprobes.WithReadinessProbes(appProbe),
    kubeprobes.WithLivenessPath("/livez"),
    kubeprobes.WithReadinessPath("/readyz"),
)
if err != nil {
    // Kubeprobes object is validated for invalid or conflicting paths! ;)
    panic(err)
}

// Start the probes server
probes := &http.Server{
    Addr:    ":8080",
    Handler: kp,
}
go probes.ListenAndServe()

// Mark probes as healthy
live.MarkAsUp()
ready.MarkAsUp()