godaddy/terminus

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1911 stars · 94 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Terminus is a Node.js library that adds graceful shutdown and Kubernetes readiness/liveness health check endpoints to any HTTP server. It hooks into shutdown signals to run cleanup logic and serves configurable health check routes.

Use cases

• add kubernetes readiness and liveness probes to a node.js app
• gracefully shut down an http server on SIGTERM
• run cleanup logic like closing database connections before shutdown
• expose a /healthcheck endpoint for container orchestration
• avoid dropped requests during rolling deployments

When to choose

• you run Node.js HTTP services on Kubernetes or other orchestrators
• you need zero-downtime deployments with graceful connection draining
• you want standardized health endpoints without a full framework

When to avoid

• your app is not an HTTP server
• you need health checks for non-Node.js runtimes
• you want a full service mesh or orchestrator-level solution

Facets

library · maturity active

http-server middleware monitoring backend web-development graceful-shutdown health-checks kubernetes-readiness liveness-probes sigterm-handling devops containers nodejs kubernetes docker

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