Description

Assume I have the docker-compose.yml file with single service foo which guaranteed to fail immediately after I start it.

If I run

docker-compose up --wait

the command will wait forever for Healthy status of foo. Literally forever.

I think the lack of --wait-timeout or just --wait <timeout> option renders this behaviour utterly useless.

Yes, I foresee one can suggest wrap docker-compose up --wait in some code with timeout or use some command (like timeout or so), but why then we have healthcheck with all the interval, timeout and retries configurations?

It's really disappointing to see such a good feature being so poorly implemented.

P.S. Also, it seems to be a good idea not only implement timeout configuration but also add possibility to specify list of services to be waited for. And I think there's more possible enhancements.

P.P.S. On second thought, if --wait fails on any configured healthcheck failure then it already can be called very useful. But again, what if there's no configured healthchecks?