Restarting an unhealthy docker container based on healthcheck

Question

I am using Docker version 17.09.0-ce, and I see that containers are marked as unhealthy. Is there an option to get the container restart instead of keeping the cont

Answer 1

For standalone containers, Docker does not have native integration to restart the container on health check failure though we can achieve the same using Docker events and a script. Health check is better integrated with Swarm. With health check integrated to Swarm, when a container in a service is unhealthy, Swarm automatically shuts down the unhealthy container and starts a new container to maintain the container count as specified in the replica count of a service.