Pija cara Docker health checks bisa makarya lan ngapa dheweke penting?

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A **health check** ngandhani Docker (utawa orchestrator) carane nemtokake apa aplikasi container tenan **gumana**, ora mung mlaku. Proses container bisa aktif nalika app rusak (hang, ora bisa menyang database) — health checks ngedeteksi iki supaya platform bisa ngréspon.

## Nemtokake health check

```dockerfile
# in a Dockerfile
HEALTHCHECK --interval=30s --timeout=3s --retries=3 \
  CMD curl -f http://localhost:3000/health || exit 1
# → Docker runs this command periodically; exit 0 = healthy, non-zero = unhealthy
```

```yaml
# in docker-compose.yml
healthcheck:
  test: ["CMD", "curl", "-f", "http://localhost:3000/health"]
  interval: 30s
  timeout: 3s
  retries: 3
  start_period: 10s    # grace period on startup before failures count
```

Docker minggir-minggir njalanake perintah health-check; status container dadi `healthy` utawa `unhealthy` adhedhasar asil (katon ing `docker ps`).

## Running vs healthy (pambedane penting)

```text
RUNNING → the container's process is alive (but the APP might be hung/broken)
HEALTHY → the health check confirms the app actually WORKS (responds correctly)
→ A container can be RUNNING but NOT HEALTHY (e.g. the app deadlocked, lost its DB).
  Without a health check, the platform only knows "running" — and keeps sending traffic
  to a broken container.
```

## Ngapa health checks penting sacara operasional

```text
✓ ORCHESTRATORS use them: restart unhealthy containers; route traffic only to healthy ones
✓ Compose depends_on: condition: service_healthy → wait for real readiness
✓ LIVENESS (is it alive? restart if not) vs READINESS (ready for traffic? hold traffic if not)
  → Kubernetes uses liveness + readiness probes (the same concept, more granular)
✓ Prevents serving requests from broken-but-running containers
```

## Ngapa iku penting

Ngetung Docker health checks iku penting kanggo **nglakokake aplikasi containerized sing bisa dipercaya**, dadi iku ilmu operasional sing penting.

Watak penting iku pambedane antara **running lan healthy**: proses container bisa **urip nalika aplikasi tenan rusak** (hang, deadlocked, ora bisa menyang database) — lan tanpa health check, platform mung weruh container iku "running" lan bakal **terus ngirim traffic menyang container rusak**, nyebabake gagal.

Health checks ngrampungake iki kanthi nemtokake carane verifikasi aplikasi **tenan gumana** (contone metuk endpoint `/health`), supaya status container nggambarake kesehatan asli, ora mung proses hidup.

Iku penting **sacara operasional** amarga orchestrators lan alat-alatan tumindak adhedhasar iki: dheweke **mbalekake container unhealthy** (panyembuhan otomatis saka hang/deadlocks) lan **ngirim traffic mung menyang sing healthy** (ngelingani ngirim request menyang instance rusak), lan `depends_on: condition: service_healthy` Compose nganggo health checks kanggo ngenteni kasiapan asli (ngrampungake startup races).

Ngetung pambedane **liveness vs readiness** sing gegandhengan (apa iku hidup lan kudu direstart, laban apa iku siap nampa traffic) iku penting, amarga **Kubernetes nganggo liveness lan readiness probes** sing dibangun saka konsep sing padha — dadi ngetung Docker health checks malindhung langsung menyang lingkungan orchestrated.

Amarga operasi bisa dipercaya nuntut pambedane "running" saka "tenan gumana" lan ngréspon container broken-but-running (direstart, waton traffic), lan amarga health checks iku mekanisme sing ngaktifake iki — dienggo orchestrators kanggo self-healing lan traffic routing — ngetung Docker health checks iku ilmu penting lan praktis kanggo nglakokake containers kanthi bisa dipercaya, latihan penting kanggo resiliensi production sing ngalang problem umum saka container rusak sing misun-misun terus nampa traffic, lan konsep dasar sarana orchestrators njaga kesehatan aplikasi.