Deployment healtchecks

content/docs/components/deployments.md

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 All pods in a deployment automatically receive a dns listing under `<name>.<namespace>.pod.cluster.skate`.
 See [Services](/docs/components/services) for more information on exposing the deployment as a service which is more reliable.
 
+## Healthchecks
+
+`podman kube play` supports `livenessProbe` in the pod manifest.
+The best way to ensure that http traffic stops being routed to an unhealthy pod is to combine that with `restartPolicy`
+of `Always` or `OnFailure`.
+
+**Traffic will only start being routed to your pod once all containers in the pod are healthy.**
+
+NOTE: using the `httpGet` probe results in podman trying to run `curl` within the container.
+With `tcpSocket` it looks for `nc`.
+
+