NestJS · Middle · Question 58 of 75

How do you enable graceful shutdown with health checks in Kubernetes for Nest?

✓Correct answer: Call app.enableShutdownHooks(), mark the app not ready on shutdown, and expose readiness/liveness via Terminus
2Disable SIGTERM
3Nothing; Nest handles it automatically

Explanation

Close connections in onModuleDestroy or onApplicationShutdown, and give in-flight requests time to finish.

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