diff --git a/ansible/roles/schulcloud-client-core/templates/deployment.yml.j2 b/ansible/roles/schulcloud-client-core/templates/deployment.yml.j2
index 982e6655a4..0c73435ca6 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/schulcloud-client-core/templates/deployment.yml.j2
+++ b/ansible/roles/schulcloud-client-core/templates/deployment.yml.j2
@@ -59,26 +59,23 @@ spec:
         - mountPath: /home/node/app/config/http-headers.js
           subPath: http-headers.js
           name: http-headers
+        # /login was chosen because on THR, the / redirects to TSP
         readinessProbe:
-          httpGet:
-            # /login was chosen because on THR, the / redirects to TSP
-            path: /login
-            port: 3100
-          timeoutSeconds: 4
+          exec:
+            command: ["wget", "--timeout", "4", "-O", "/dev/null", "http://localhost:3100/login"]
+          timeoutSeconds: 5
           failureThreshold: 3
           periodSeconds: 10
         livenessProbe:
-          httpGet:
-            path: /login
-            port: 3100
-          timeoutSeconds: 4
+          exec:
+            command: ["wget", "--timeout", "4", "-O", "/dev/null", "http://localhost:3100/login"]
+          timeoutSeconds: 5
           failureThreshold: 3
           periodSeconds: 15
         startupProbe:
-          httpGet:
-            path: /login
-            port: 3100
-          timeoutSeconds: 4
+          exec:
+            command: ["wget", "--timeout", "4", "-O", "/dev/null", "http://localhost:3100/login"]
+          timeoutSeconds: 5
           failureThreshold: 36
           periodSeconds: 5
         resources: