If the readiness probe fails, will the Kafka Listener work or not?

If the readiness probe fails, it means that the application is considered not ready to receive traffic. In the context of Kafka Listener, this means that the listener is likely not to process messages, as the container or service may be excluded from load balancing or restarted by the orchestrator (e.g., Kubernetes).

In other words, the readiness probe affects the availability of the service for external requests and message processing. If it fails, the Kafka Listener usually does not operate to prevent processing messages in an incorrect application state.