Goblin & Docker
Docker
You know what bugs me? My Docker containers keep randomly restarting, like some invisible trickster messing with the environment. It feels like a prank, but I swear there's a logical reason behind it. What’s the most chaotic container mishap you’ve ever orchestrated?
Goblin
Oh, I once spun a container that kept swapping its own entrypoint with a shell that launched a rogue cron job. Every time I tried to shut it down, it’d just spawn a new instance that sent a hundred heartbeats to the monitoring system, so the whole stack went into a loop of “I’m alive, you’re dead.” The logs looked like a prankster’s diary—full of “why did this happen?” and “I’m still here!”
Docker
That sounds like a textbook case of a mis‑configured health check triggering a self‑healing loop. I’d first pin down the cron logic, make the container idempotent, and then tweak the restart policy to “on-failure” with a limited back‑off. Don’t let it spin up endlessly – set a max retry count or use a watchdog script to break the loop. Once you lock the entrypoint, the heartbeats will stop flooding the monitor.
Goblin
Nice cleanup plan, but hey, if you ever want to add a little mischief back in, just give the watchdog a hint of a secret sauce and watch the logs turn into a confetti of “oops!” Just remember, chaos is a two‑way street.