<p>I'm creating multiple pods at the same time in Openshift, and I also want to check the containers inside the pods are working correctly.
Some of these containers can take a while to start-up, and I don't want to wait for one pod to be fully running before starting up the other one.</p>
<p>Are there any Openshift / Kubernetes checks I can do to ensure a container has booted up, while also going ahead with other deployments?</p>

<p><code>...Some of these containers can take a while to start-up</code></p>
<p>Liveness probe is not a good option for containers that requires extended startup time, mainly because you have to set a long time to cater for startup; which is irrelevant after that - result to unable to detect problem on time during execution. Instead, you use <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-liveness-readiness-startup-probes/#define-startup-probes" rel="nofollow noreferrer">startup probe</a> to handle and detect problem during startup and handover to liveness probe upon success; or restart container according to its restartPolicy should the startup probe failed.</p>
