Health & Smoke Test

Intro

Key component of application/continuous deployment

Why This Matters

Ensuring deployments are successful
Knowing when live deployments are having trouble

Our Recommendation

Have a standardized pattern for health/ready checks
Have set of smoke tests to promote blue/green deployment

How To Do It

Standard /health HTTP endpoints
/ready as well?
200 OK when application is ready to handle work (serve traffic, has DB connection, etc.)

Alternatives/Notes

Dependencies

Continuous Integration

Dependents