How does implementing production readiness checks affect the scalability of a Kubernetes application?

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Kubernetes - Production Best Practices

AIt improves scalability by ensuring only healthy pods receive traffic during scaling

BIt reduces scalability by adding overhead to pod startup

CIt has no effect on scalability

DIt forces manual scaling of pods

Step-by-Step Solution

Solution:

Step 1: Understand readiness impact on scaling
Readiness probes ensure only ready pods are counted as available during scaling.
Step 2: Effect on traffic and load balancing
This prevents traffic from going to unhealthy pods, improving overall scalability.
Final Answer:
It improves scalability by ensuring only healthy pods receive traffic during scaling -> Option A
Quick Check:
Readiness checks improve scalability by filtering unhealthy pods [OK]

Quick Trick: Readiness probes help scale healthy pods only [OK]

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