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Container Guardrails - Healthcheck

Healthcheck

container.healthcheck

Requires a HEALTHCHECK instruction in the final stage of multi-stage builds. Enables container orchestrators to detect and restart unhealthy containers.

healthcheck kubernetes container orchestration docker health

Compatible Integrations

This guardrail works with the following integrations. Click to see how to use Healthcheck with each collector.

Enable This Guardrail

Add the parent policy to your lunar-config.yml to enable this guardrail.

📄 lunar-config.yml
policies:
  - uses: github://earthly/lunar-lib/policies/container@v1.0.0
    include: [healthcheck]
    # with: ...

How This Guardrail Works

This guardrail is part of the Container Guardrails policy. It evaluates data collected by integrations and produces a pass/fail check with actionable feedback.

When enabled, this check runs automatically on every PR and in AI coding workflows, providing real-time enforcement of your engineering standards.

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1
Integrations Gather Data
Collectors extract metadata from code, CI pipelines, tool outputs, and scans
2
{ } Centralized as JSON
All data merged into each component's unified metadata document
3
This Guardrail Checks Current
Healthcheck runs and provides pass/fail feedback

Configuration Options

These inputs can be configured in your lunar-config.yml to customize how the parent policy (and this guardrail) behaves.

Input Required Default Description
allowed_registries Optional docker.io Comma-separated list of allowed registries
required_labels Required Comma-separated list of required labels (empty = no requirement)
Container Guardrails

Container Guardrails

This guardrail is part of the Container Guardrails policy, which includes 6 guardrails for devex build and ci.

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