Configuring Health Check for Multiple Ports

The annotation field related to the health check of the LoadBalancer Service is upgraded from Kubernetes.io/elb.health-check-option to Kubernetes.io/elb.health-check-options. Each Service port can be configured separately, and you can configure only some ports. If the port protocol does not need to be configured separately, the original annotation field is still available and does not need to be modified.

Constraints

  • This feature takes effect only in the following versions:

    • v1.19: v1.19.16-r5 or later

    • v1.21: v1.21.8-r0 or later

    • v1.23: v1.23.6-r0 or later

    • v1.25: v1.25.2-r0 or later

  • kubernetes.io/elb.health-check-option and kubernetes.io/elb.health-check-options cannot be configured at the same time.

  • The target_service_port field is mandatory and must be unique.

  • For a TCP port, the health check protocol can only be TCP or HTTP. For a UDP port, the health check protocol must be UDP.

Procedure

The following is an example of using the kubernetes.io/elb.health-check-options annotation:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: nginx
  namespace: default
  labels: {}
  annotations:
    kubernetes.io/elb.class: union
    kubernetes.io/elb.id: 038ffbda-bd3a-48bb-8b8c-a8582601fd97
    kubernetes.io/elb.lb-algorithm: ROUND_ROBIN
    kubernetes.io/elb.health-check-flag: 'on'
    kubernetes.io/elb.health-check-options: '{
    "target_service_port": "TCP:80", // (Mandatory) Port for health check specified by spec.ports. The value consists of the protocol and port number, for example, TCP:80.
    "monitor_port": "",        // (Optional) Re-specified port for health check. If this parameter is not specified, the service port is used by default. Ensure that the port is in the listening state on the node where the pod is located. Otherwise, the health check result will be affected.
    "protocol":"TCP",
    "delay":"5",
    "timeout":"10",
    "max_retries":"3",
    "path":"/"
    }'
spec:
  selector: {}
  externalTrafficPolicy: Cluster
  ports:
    - name: cce-service-0
      targetPort: 80
      nodePort: 0
      port: 80
      protocol: TCP
  type: LoadBalancer
  loadBalancerIP: **.**.**.**
Table 1 Data structure description of the elb.health-check-options field

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

target_service_port

Yes

String

Port for health check specified by spec.ports. The value consists of the protocol and port number, for example, TCP:80.

monitor_port

No

String

Re-specified port for health check. If this parameter is not specified, the service port is used by default.

Note

Ensure that the port is in the listening state on the node where the pod is located. Otherwise, the health check result will be affected.

delay

No

String

Initial waiting time (in seconds) for starting the health check.

Value range: 1 to 50. Default value: 5

timeout

No

String

Health check timeout, in seconds.

Value range: 1 to 50. Default value: 10

max_retries

No

String

Maximum number of health check retries.

Value range: 1 to 10. Default value: 3

protocol

No

String

Health check protocol.

Default value: protocol of the associated Service

Value options: TCP, UDP, or HTTP

path

No

String

Health check URL. This parameter needs to be configured when the protocol is HTTP.

Default value: /

The value can contain 1 to 10,000 characters.