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On 11/17/21 10:54 PM, Dan Smith wrote:
>> I don't think we rely on /healthcheck -- there's nothing healthy about
>> an API endpoint blindly returning a 200 OK.
>>
>> You might as well just hit / and accept 300 as a code and that's
>> exactly the same behaviour.  I support what Sean is bringing up here
>> and I don't think it makes sense to have a noop /healthcheck that
>> always gives a 200 OK...seems a bit useless imho
> 
> Yup, totally agree. Our previous concerns over a healthcheck that
> checked all of nova returning too much info to be useful (for something
> trying to figure out if an individual worker is healthy) apply in
> reverse to one that returns too little to be useful.
> 
> I agree, what Sean is working on is the right balance and that we should
> focus on that.
> 
> --Dan
> 

That's not the only thing it does. It also is capable of being disabled,
which is useful for maintenance: one can gracefully remove an API node
for removal this way, which one cannot do with the root.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)