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docs/Software Development/03-Distributed Computing Specifications/05-DevOps Requirements.md

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+# DevOps Requirements
+
+## Health Check
+
+All web application are required to provide a `GET /health` endpoint that will return a `200` HTTP Response Code if: 
+
+1. The application was bootstrapped successful and
+2. Necessary connections to different data sources can be established and
+3. Connection to depending services can be established
+
+If these conditions cannot be met, the endpoint must return a `503` HTTP Response Code. 
+
+## Status 
+
+All web application are required to provide a `GET /status` endpoint with a similar response schema and a `200` HTTP Response Code: 
+
+```json
+{
+    "name": {
+        "type": "string",
+        "description": "The application name"
+    },
+    "version": {
+        "type": "string",
+        "description": "The version of the application"
+    },
+    "startTime": {
+        "type": "string",
+        "format": "date-time",
+        "description": "The start time when the application was successfully booted"
+    },
+    "host": {
+        "type": "string",
+        "description": "The name of the host machine on which the application is running"
+    }
+}
+```
+
+Example:
+```json
+{
+   "name":"simple-api",
+   "version":"0.1.0",
+   "startTime":"2021-10-28T14:49:08.06+00:00",
+   "host":"simple-api-deployment-c99cdcfdf-xrfh4"
+}
+```
+