Red Hat Blog: Part 2: How to enable Hardware Accelerators on OpenShift, SRO Building Blocks

startupProbe The thought behind using this probe was to signal SRO as to the readiness of an application within the Container. The only problem is that, despite the state of the application, the status of the Pod is always Running. If the probe fails, the Container is killed. We cannot deduce any readiness of the application within that container.