Native Health Checks and the Distroless Image
Why the silo binary grows a healthcheck subcommand, why mc ready had to be retired as a probe, and how the single-binary distroless image is planned.
The component pages in this section record where Silo matches MinIO. This subsection records the places where Silo deliberately goes beyond it: each page is a design note, written before the implementation lands, and kept afterwards as the authoritative record of what was decided and why.
A note here describes intent, not necessarily shipped behavior — every page carries a status line saying which it is.
Why the silo binary grows a healthcheck subcommand, why mc ready had to be retired as a probe, and how the single-binary distroless image is planned.