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Isn't that what custom liveliness probes are for?

No- liveness probe just restarts the pod if the check fails, doesn't kill it.

I think a failed liveness will restart the container, not the whole pod.

You're right. We always have one container per pod so I didn't fully think about this.

Isn't that because the pod's restart policy is set to restart? What if you set that to off? Does it fail the whole pod?