diff --git a/examples/liveness/http-liveness.yaml b/examples/liveness/http-liveness.yaml
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+apiVersion: v1beta1
+desiredState:
+  manifest:
+    containers:
+      - image: kubernetes/liveness
+        name: liveness
+        livenessProbe:
+          httpGet:
+            path: "/healthz"
+            port: 8080
+          initialDelaySeconds: 15
+        command:
+          - /server
+    id: liveness-http
+    version: v1beta1
+id: liveness-http
+kind: Pod
+labels:
+  test: liveness
diff --git a/examples/liveness/image/Dockerfile b/examples/liveness/image/Dockerfile
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+++ b/examples/liveness/image/Dockerfile
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+FROM scratch
+
+ADD server /server
+
diff --git a/examples/liveness/image/Makefile b/examples/liveness/image/Makefile
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+++ b/examples/liveness/image/Makefile
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+all: push
+
+server: server.go
+	CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux go build -a -tags netgo -ldflags '-w' ./server.go
+
+container: server
+	docker build -t kubernetes/liveness .
+
+push: container
+	docker push kubernetes/liveness
+
+clean:
+	rm -f server
diff --git a/examples/liveness/image/server.go b/examples/liveness/image/server.go
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+++ b/examples/liveness/image/server.go
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+/*
+Copyright 2014 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+// A simple server that is alive for 10 seconds, then reports unhealthy for
+// the rest of its (hopefully) short existence.
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"log"
+	"net/http"
+	"time"
+)
+
+func main() {
+	started := time.Now()
+	http.HandleFunc("/started", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		w.WriteHeader(200)
+		data := (time.Now().Sub(started)).String()
+		w.Write([]byte(data))
+	})
+	http.HandleFunc("/healthz", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		duration := time.Now().Sub(started)
+		if duration.Seconds() > 10 {
+			w.WriteHeader(500)
+			w.Write([]byte(fmt.Sprintf("error: %v", duration.Seconds())))
+		} else {
+			w.WriteHeader(200)
+			w.Write([]byte("ok"))
+		}
+	})
+	log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil))
+}
diff --git a/hack/e2e-suite/liveness.sh b/hack/e2e-suite/liveness.sh
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+++ b/hack/e2e-suite/liveness.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Copyright 2014 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Launches a container and verifies it can be reached. Assumes that
+# we're being called by hack/e2e-test.sh (we use some env vars it sets up).
+
+set -o errexit
+set -o nounset
+set -o pipefail
+
+KUBE_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE}")/../..
+source "${KUBE_ROOT}/cluster/kube-env.sh"
+source "${KUBE_ROOT}/cluster/$KUBERNETES_PROVIDER/util.sh"
+
+function teardown() {
+  echo "Cleaning up test artifacts"
+  ${KUBECFG} delete pods/liveness-http
+}
+
+function waitForRunning() {
+  pod_id_list=$($KUBECFG '-template={{range.items}}{{.id}} {{end}}' -l test=liveness list pods)
+  # Pod turn up on a clean cluster can take a while for the docker image pull.
+  all_running=0
+  for i in $(seq 1 24); do
+    echo "Waiting for pod to come up."
+    sleep 5
+    all_running=1
+    for id in $pod_id_list; do
+      current_status=$($KUBECFG -template '{{.currentState.status}}' get pods/$id) || true
+      if [[ "$current_status" != "Running" ]]; then
+        all_running=0
+        break
+      fi
+    done
+    if [[ "${all_running}" == 1 ]]; then
+      break
+    fi
+  done
+  if [[ "${all_running}" == 0 ]]; then
+    echo "Pods did not come up in time"
+    exit 1
+  fi
+}
+
+trap "teardown" EXIT
+
+${KUBECFG} -c ${KUBE_ROOT}/examples/liveness/http-liveness.yaml create pods
+waitForRunning
+
+before=$(${KUBECFG} '-template={{.currentState.info.liveness.restartCount}}' get pods/liveness-http)
+
+echo "Waiting for restarts."
+for i in $(seq 1 24); do
+  sleep 10 
+  after=$(${KUBECFG} '-template={{.currentState.info.liveness.restartCount}}' get pods/liveness-http)
+  echo "Restarts: ${after} > ${before}"
+  if [[ "${after}" > "${before} ]]; then
+    break
+  fi
+done
+
+if [[ "${before}" < "${after}" ]]; then
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+echo "Unexpected absence of failures."
+echo "Restarts before: ${before}."
+echo "Restarts after: ${after}"
+exit 1