Redis service docker-compose health check

Published on 2022-12-17 • Modified on 2022-12-17

This snippet shows how to put in place a health check for a docker Redis service in a docker-compose file. There is the ping function of Redis, which is precisely what we need in this case.

# Cache ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
# Redis (official image)
# https://hub.docker.com/_/redis
  redis:
    container_name: strangebuzz-redis-1
    image: redis:5.0.13-alpine
    ports:
      - '6389:6379'
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "redis-cli -h 127.0.0.1 ping | grep 'PONG' || exit 1"]
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 30s
      retries: 10

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