Background

• BFE can be configured with Passive Health Check (i.e. Outlier Detection) and use responses from real requests to determine whether an backend instance is healthy.

Description
Add Active Health Check support:

• Actively and periodically send health checking requests to backend.
• Use responses from health checking requests to determine whether an backend instance is he

Currently the release script uses invoke (inv), but the way to make it work is manually installing it's dependencies (pyyaml and semver).

We should make this process straight-forward (probably add a requirements file might be enough, but if you consider it is if needed, add docs too).

currently "option forwardfor" cant't be unset, so there is no way to enable it in the default section and disable it in a particular frontend

Problem Summary:

• There was a change to Steeltoe quite some time ago to comply with the Spring spec for returning HTTP 503 in cases of HealthStatus.DOWN or HealthStatus.OUT_OF_SERVICE.

• For 500 series errors, however, HWC is configured by default to substitute a canned message for the http response content - so, instead of getting back any failed health checks, the monitor just gets a 503 w

Add a response timeout value in the timeout message.