I have a situation where I have zero endpoints available for one service. To test this, I specially crafted a yaml descriptor that uses a simple node server to set and retrieve the ready/live status for a pod:

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: nodejs-deployment
  labels:
    app: nodejs
spec:
  replicas: 3
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: nodejs
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: nodejs
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: nodejs
        image: nodejs_server
        ports:
        - containerPort: 8080
        livenessProbe:
          httpGet:
            path: /is_alive
            port: 8080
          initialDelaySeconds: 5
          timeoutSeconds: 3
          periodSeconds: 10
        readinessProbe:
          httpGet:
            path: /is_ready
            port: 8080
          initialDelaySeconds: 5
          timeoutSeconds: 3
          periodSeconds: 10
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: nodejs-service
  labels:
    app: nodejs
spec:
  ports:
  - port: 80
    protocol: TCP
    targetPort: 8080
  selector:
    app: nodejs
---    
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: nodejs-ingress
spec:
  backend:
    serviceName: nodejs-service
    servicePort: 80

The node server has methods to set and retrieve the liveness and readiness.

When the app start I can see that 3 replicas are created and the status of them is ready. OK then now I trigger manually the status of their readiness to set to false [from outside the ingress]. One pod is correctly removed from the endpoint so no traffic is routed to it[that's OK as this is the expected behavior]. When I set all the ready-statuses to false for all pods the endpoints list is empty [still the expected behavior].

At that point I cannot set ready=true from outside the ingress as the traffic is not routed to any pod. Is there a way here for example of triggering a restart of the pod when the ready is not achieved after n-timer or n-seconds? Or when the endpoints list is empty?