title: Is it possible to health check a Kubernetes API server over HTTP or TCP?
body: <p>I need to load balance a cluster of Kubernetes API servers (version 1.7) on DigitalOcean, but the problem is that the Kubernetes API server seemingly only supports HTTPS and the DigitalOcean load balancer can only do <a href="https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/#load-balancers" rel="noreferrer">HTTP or TCP health checks</a>.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to perform health checks of the Kubernetes API server either via HTTP or TCP?</p>