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Automatic restarts for Containers and Executables

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go, kubernetes

Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are identified in the issue. Start by reviewing the Container and Executable dependency-service abstractions and the container orchestrator layer, then define restart and backoff behavior; done would require an agreed design and implementation scope.

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Description

area-orchestrator enhancement
Motivation

There are cases when a Container or Executable used as a dependency service is not as resilient to transient errors as one would like it to be. In those cases an automatic restart upon failure is a big boost to developer productivity.

Initial design thoughts

If we do this, we should be very careful about avoiding thrashing, i.e. restarting in a tight loop. K8s does it well with "exponential backoff" for repeatedly failing restarts.

For containers we might be able to leverage what the container orchestrator supports, but the support may vary from orchestrator to orchestrator, so DCP might need to backfill in some cases and we might model the restart support as optional in our container orchestrator abstraction layer.

Dominant language
Go
Stars
191
Forks
26
Avg merge
22h 49m
Merged PRs (30d)
23

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