<p>I am using an initContainer to mount a index.html and mount that within the tomcat 9 server.
The <code>readinessProbe</code>, type: <code>httpGet</code> with initalDelaySeconds: 60.</p>
<p>Without the readinessProbe, the application started and i am able to access the Url and see the content.</p>
<p><code>kubectl describe pod/&lt;pod--&gt;</code> provides below message</p>
<pre><code> Normal   Created    104s               kubelet, worker1.com  Created container tomcat-container
 Normal   Started    104s               kubelet, worker1.com  Started container tomcat-container
 Warning  Unhealthy  10s (x4 over 40s)  kubelet, worker1.com  Readiness probe failed: Get http://localhost:8080/temp/index.html: dial tcp [::1]:8080: connect: connection refused
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<p>without the readiness probe when i exec into the container and perform curl command i see the responce.</p>
<pre class="lang-yaml prettyprint-override"><code>apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: tomcat-deployment
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
     app: tomcat
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: tomcat
        role: rolling-update
    spec:
      volumes:
      - name: shared-volume
        emptyDir: {}
      initContainers:
      - name: busybox
        image: busybox
        volumeMounts:
        - name: shared-volume
          mountPath: /app-data/temp
        command: [&quot;/bin/sh&quot;]
        args: [&quot;-c&quot;,&quot;echo '&lt;h1&gt;hellow from k8s!&lt;/h1&gt;' &gt; /app-data/temp/index.html&quot;]

      containers:
      - name: tomcat-container
        image: tomcat:9.0
        # command: [&quot;/bin/bash&quot;]
        # args: [&quot;-c&quot;,&quot;mkdir -p /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/temp; touch index.html&quot;]
        volumeMounts:
        - name: shared-volume
          mountPath: /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/temp
        ports:
        - containerPort: 8080
        readinessProbe:
          initialDelaySeconds: 60
          httpGet:
            host: localhost
            path: /temp/index.html
            port: 8080
        #  exec:
        #    command:
        #      - curl
        #      - http://localhost:8080/temp/index.html
  strategy:
    type: RollingUpdate
    rollingUpdate:
       maxSurge: 2
       maxUnavailable: 1
---
kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: tomcat-service
spec:
  selector:
    app: tomcat
  type: NodePort
  ports:
  - protocol: TCP
    port: 8080
    targetPort: 8080
    nodePort: 30080

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<p>The <code>readinessProbe</code> exec: command works though, the pod is started successfully.</p>
<p>Question:
Any inputs why the httpGet readiness didn't work in this case.</p>
<p>Logs from the container:</p>
<pre><code>27-Jun-2020 22:41:17.709 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Dignore.endorsed.dirs=
27-Jun-2020 22:41:17.710 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Dcatalina.base=/usr/local/tomcat
27-Jun-2020 22:41:17.710 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Dcatalina.home=/usr/local/tomcat
27-Jun-2020 22:41:17.711 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Command line argument: -Djava.io.tmpdir=/usr/local/tomcat/temp
27-Jun-2020 22:41:17.711 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener.lifecycleEvent Loaded Apache Tomcat Native library [1.2.24] using APR version [1.6.5].
27-Jun-2020 22:41:17.711 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener.lifecycleEvent APR capabilities: IPv6 [true], sendfile [true], accept filters [false], random [true].
27-Jun-2020 22:41:17.712 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener.lifecycleEvent APR/OpenSSL configuration: useAprConnector [false], useOpenSSL [true]
27-Jun-2020 22:41:17.747 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener.initializeSSL OpenSSL successfully initialized [OpenSSL 1.1.1d  10 Sep 2019]
27-Jun-2020 22:41:23.913 INFO [main] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.init Initializing ProtocolHandler [&quot;http-nio-8080&quot;]
27-Jun-2020 22:41:24.324 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load Server initialization in [9,608] milliseconds
27-Jun-2020 22:41:25.112 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.startInternal Starting service [Catalina]
27-Jun-2020 22:41:25.119 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.startInternal Starting Servlet engine: [Apache Tomcat/9.0.36]
27-Jun-2020 22:41:25.194 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory Deploying web application directory [/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/temp]
27-Jun-2020 22:41:27.980 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory Deployment of web application directory [/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/temp] has finished in [2,766] ms
27-Jun-2020 22:41:28.100 INFO [main] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.start Starting ProtocolHandler [&quot;http-nio-8080&quot;]
27-Jun-2020 22:41:28.286 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start Server startup in [3,960] milliseconds
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Tim
<p>Exec works because that's being executed within the container where localhost:8080 is available.
But httpGet is executed by Kubelet.
So when host is specified as localhost, it tries to connect to port 8080 on the node. Hence the failure.</p>
<p>Please remove &quot;host: localhost&quot; in probe so that it'll default to pod ip and will work as expected.</p>
