NestJS · Senior · Question 27 of 75

How should a Nest app shut down in Kubernetes to avoid dropped requests?

1Ignore SIGTERM and wait for SIGKILL
✓Correct answer: On SIGTERM, fail readiness, keep serving in-flight requests, then close the server and connections in shutdown hooks within the grace period
3Exit immediately on SIGTERM

Explanation

Enable shutdown hooks; also set keep-alive timeouts correctly behind load balancers.

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