On Mon, 2019-05-06 at 13:16 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: > On 5/2/19 9:20 PM, Brent Baude wrote: > > On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 16:12 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote: > > > - Create a systemd service file on the host for the healthcheck, > > > - Create a systemd timer file on the host for the healthcheck. > > > > > > > Just for the record, healthchecks are optional. The systemd > > service > > and timer files are created automatically for you with podman and > > are > > considered to be transient in nature. That means if the system is > > rebooted, that timer and service are deleted. If the container is > > started again, they are recreated. > > does it means the recommended way to create one systemd service file > for > the container and in this service the ExecStart's podman should have > to > be a --healthcheck-command parameter (and may be more) and use the > podman generated transient timer or service for healtcheck? > > and in this case in case of failure who and how will restart the main > service? >
Farkas, I'm having trouble understanding your question. The use of systemd to control a container and the use of systemd to provide health checks are mutually exclusive. You do not need to put anything healthcheck related in your systemd file that controls the container.
