Run in docker-compose, wait for the database

Do you use docker-compose to run your local development environment? Do you write your commands into a Makefile to protect your brain and your fingers from complex startup scripts? If so, then you know how painful it is to tell your service to wait for the database before starting. In a sane production environment, a service should always boot and patiently wait for the dependencies to become available, and signal their state through something like a readiness probe....

June 25, 2019 ยท Pierre Prinetti