Merge pull request #77 from clowder-framework/healtz-endpoint

healthz endpoint

Author: lmarini

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+### Added
+- added healtz endpoint that is cheap and quick to return, useful for kubernetes live/ready checks.
+
 ### Fixed
 - proxy will no correctly handle paths that end with a / at the end.
 

app/controllers/Application.scala

@@ -263,6 +263,10 @@ class Application @Inject() (files: FileService, collections: CollectionService,
     Ok("")
    }
 
+  def healthz() = Action { implicit request =>
+    Ok("healthy")
+  }
+
   /**
    * Bookmarklet
    */

conf/routes

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ GET            /
 GET            /about                                                                   @controllers.Application.about
 GET            /tos                                                                     @controllers.Application.tos(redirect: Option[String] ?= None)
 GET            /email                                                                   @controllers.Application.email(subject: String ?= "", body: String ?= "")
+GET            /healthz                                                                 @controllers.Application.healthz()
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Map static resources from the /public folder to the /assets URL path