docker-compose up fails because elasticsearch does not spin up in time

[brightredchilli]

The issue, as far as I can see it, is that on my machine, the es instance does not spin up in 15s(3 retries x 5s from the web service). This causes the web box to exit prematurely. I worked around this by using the wait-for-it script and modifying docker-compose to match. The workarond, in summary:

1. Download wait-for-it.sh file into the flask-app directory
2. Replace command: python app.py with command: ["./wait-for-it.sh", "es:9200", "--", "python", "app.py"]
3. Run docker build -t <username>/foodtrucks . to update the image
4. Re-run docker-compose up

This is probably not the best way to do it but I thought I'd record it here in case anyone else has the same issues.

Another obvious solution is simply to increase the timeout. Happy to make a pull request for either.

[prakhar1989]

I've updated the compose script with some changes, and hopefully it should be working fine now. Feel free to reopen the issue if it still persists.

[MattConrad]

I had (what apparently was) the same issue and brightredchilli's workaround worked for me. Just an FYI.