[anirudhrx]

Liveness probes are used by the kubelet to restart the underlying container and are independent of the deployment object. This has come up before in https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/57187 but sadly, isn't possible yet. Your best bet is to create a new pod and hope for repro, or one way might be to have a configmap that is mounted into the pod that contains a debug flag that your liveness probe also looks at - i.e. "debug == true || curl localhost:6789". Not a clean solution but may work for the interim.