Add a HEALTHCHECK to the images
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 52/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Tech stack
- docker, docker-compose, postgres
- Domain
- databases, devops, infrastructure
Research direction
Start by locating the Docker image definitions for the Postgres images and checking how their variants are built. Add the requested healthcheck consistently, then verify that Docker Compose can wait for the database to report a healthy state before starting the application.
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Description
When helping people on StackOverflow, I often see people having problems with Docker Compose and applications that try to connect to the database immediately on startup. When using a simple docker compose 'depends_on' directive, compose only waits for the database to be started before starting the application. The application then fails because the database isn't ready to accept connections yet.
The solution is to add a healthcheck to the database container in docker compose and have the application wait for the database to enter a healthy state.
It would be nice if the healthcheck was included in the Postgres image by default. A simple HEALTHCHECK ["pg_isready"] should be enough.
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- Shell
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