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moby--moby/container/health.go
Thomas Leonard b6c7becbfe
Add support for user-defined healthchecks
This PR adds support for user-defined health-check probes for Docker
containers. It adds a `HEALTHCHECK` instruction to the Dockerfile syntax plus
some corresponding "docker run" options. It can be used with a restart policy
to automatically restart a container if the check fails.

The `HEALTHCHECK` instruction has two forms:

* `HEALTHCHECK [OPTIONS] CMD command` (check container health by running a command inside the container)
* `HEALTHCHECK NONE` (disable any healthcheck inherited from the base image)

The `HEALTHCHECK` instruction tells Docker how to test a container to check that
it is still working. This can detect cases such as a web server that is stuck in
an infinite loop and unable to handle new connections, even though the server
process is still running.

When a container has a healthcheck specified, it has a _health status_ in
addition to its normal status. This status is initially `starting`. Whenever a
health check passes, it becomes `healthy` (whatever state it was previously in).
After a certain number of consecutive failures, it becomes `unhealthy`.

The options that can appear before `CMD` are:

* `--interval=DURATION` (default: `30s`)
* `--timeout=DURATION` (default: `30s`)
* `--retries=N` (default: `1`)

The health check will first run **interval** seconds after the container is
started, and then again **interval** seconds after each previous check completes.

If a single run of the check takes longer than **timeout** seconds then the check
is considered to have failed.

It takes **retries** consecutive failures of the health check for the container
to be considered `unhealthy`.

There can only be one `HEALTHCHECK` instruction in a Dockerfile. If you list
more than one then only the last `HEALTHCHECK` will take effect.

The command after the `CMD` keyword can be either a shell command (e.g. `HEALTHCHECK
CMD /bin/check-running`) or an _exec_ array (as with other Dockerfile commands;
see e.g. `ENTRYPOINT` for details).

The command's exit status indicates the health status of the container.
The possible values are:

- 0: success - the container is healthy and ready for use
- 1: unhealthy - the container is not working correctly
- 2: starting - the container is not ready for use yet, but is working correctly

If the probe returns 2 ("starting") when the container has already moved out of the
"starting" state then it is treated as "unhealthy" instead.

For example, to check every five minutes or so that a web-server is able to
serve the site's main page within three seconds:

    HEALTHCHECK --interval=5m --timeout=3s \
      CMD curl -f http://localhost/ || exit 1

To help debug failing probes, any output text (UTF-8 encoded) that the command writes
on stdout or stderr will be stored in the health status and can be queried with
`docker inspect`. Such output should be kept short (only the first 4096 bytes
are stored currently).

When the health status of a container changes, a `health_status` event is
generated with the new status. The health status is also displayed in the
`docker ps` output.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Leonard <thomas.leonard@docker.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
2016-06-02 23:58:34 +02:00

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package container
import (
"github.com/Sirupsen/logrus"
"github.com/docker/engine-api/types"
)
// Health holds the current container health-check state
type Health struct {
types.Health
stop chan struct{} // Write struct{} to stop the monitor
}
// String returns a human-readable description of the health-check state
func (s *Health) String() string {
if s.stop == nil {
return "no healthcheck"
}
switch s.Status {
case types.Starting:
return "health: starting"
default: // Healthy and Unhealthy are clear on their own
return s.Status
}
}
// OpenMonitorChannel creates and returns a new monitor channel. If there already is one,
// it returns nil.
func (s *Health) OpenMonitorChannel() chan struct{} {
if s.stop == nil {
logrus.Debugf("OpenMonitorChannel")
s.stop = make(chan struct{})
return s.stop
}
return nil
}
// CloseMonitorChannel closes any existing monitor channel.
func (s *Health) CloseMonitorChannel() {
if s.stop != nil {
logrus.Debugf("CloseMonitorChannel: waiting for probe to stop")
// This channel does not buffer. Once the write succeeds, the monitor
// has read the stop request and will not make any further updates
// to c.State.Health.
s.stop <- struct{}{}
s.stop = nil
logrus.Debugf("CloseMonitorChannel done")
}
}