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A portal-app container failure can be simulated by stopping the portal-app container.    The kubernetes liveness operation will detect that the ports are down, inferring there's a problem with the service, and in turn, will restart the container. 

Here is where one of the running instances was deleted. And another is starting.

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Here the new instance has started and the old one is still terminating

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After the deleted instance has terminated the 3 instances are all running normally.

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  During this time there was no issues with the Portal Website.

portal-app Scaling

To scale a new portal-app, set the replica count appropriately.   

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