Adds self-healing and health visibility to a service.
Section: Production-Minded Compose Patterns
App with healthcheck and restart policy
yaml
yaml
services:
app:
image: myapp:${APP_TAG:-latest}
restart: unless-stopped
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD-SHELL", "curl -fsS http://localhost:3000/health || exit 1"]
interval: 30s
timeout: 5s
retries: 3Explanation
Useful for small-host production deployments and uptime monitoring.
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