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Define a health check command for the container.

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Section: Common Patterns

Add health check

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HEALTHCHECK --interval=30s --timeout=5s --retries=3 CMD wget -qO- http://localhost:3000/health || exit 1
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Useful with orchestrators and compose health status.

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