waiton

README

waiton

A very simple CLI tool to wait for TCP or HTTP server to respond.

You can use environment variable or CLI flags as follow:

• GLOBALTIMEOUT -globalTimeout Timeout to wait for all the hosts to be available before failure, default 1m.

• URLTIMEOUT -urlTimeout Timeout to wait for one host to be available before retry, default 10s.

• URLS -urls comma separated list of urls to test, supported schemes are http://, https:// & tcp://

Example

GLOBALTIMEOUT=10s URLS="http://www.google.com,tcp://localhost:22" ./waiton

./waiton -globalTimeout=10s -urls="http://www.google.com,tcp://localhost:22"

docker run  --rm -it -e URLS="http://www.goole.com" akhenak/waiton:latest

Details

For HTTP & TCP, waiton wll retry every 1s as a backoff strategy.

waiton is the main component for drone-waiton a drone plugin to wait for hosts availability.