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		candiddevmike on Feb 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Podman 4.0 Docker healthchecks don't actually do anything besides status reporting AFAIK.

mindwok on Feb 23, 2022 [–]

Mainly I use it for starting services in some kind of order with compose files, but other than that I believe you're correct, it only does anything at startup. It doesn't restart containers that become unhealthy it seems.

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