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

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