How to check Docker Container is Healthy or not

Sarthak TyagiSarthak Tyagi
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Basically Sometime docker container is running but the services is not running so at this point of time in every 30 sec we send a curl request if they then respond 200 then it's become Healthy

How I make it Hands-on

first i clone this app

https://github.com/SarthakTyagiji/Color_Flipper.git

There is docker file already exist do these changes in it

vim Dockerfile

Add HEALTH CHECK in it

FROM nginx:latest

WORKDIR /usr/share/nginx/html

COPY . .

EXPOSE 80

HEALTHCHECK --interval=30s --timeout=3s \
  CMD curl --fail http://localhost || exit 1

CMD ["nginx", "-g", "daemon off;"]

--interval = every 30sec it will check again and again

--timeout = if it take more then 3 sec for checking then it will show error

--retries = it will retry (like if you enter 3) 3 times before sending you final result

--start-period = it will hold (if start period is 1 m) 1 min before start checking

and build and run this

docker build -t test
docker run -p 80:80 -d test
docker ps

If You see like this then it means it's running

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