Restarting Container on Schedule with Cron

[darrylmorley]

Hi,

I have a container that needs to be restarted every couple of minutes. When I set up a cron job to do this, Caprover starts a new instance upon restart. I then have 2 containers running the same app.

Traffic is then forwarded to the new instance that Caprover has created instead of the expected instance that has been restarted.

How can I restart my container on schedule without a new instance being created please?

crontab

*/2 * * * *  docker restart srv-captain--ss-utils.1.o4ajxg6xgx6zgswt7e7gm8cn7

docker ps

37a8e146eb6f   daz1uk/ss-extra:v1    "docker-entrypoint.s…"   20 minutes ago   Up 20 minutes   6000/tcp    srv-captain--ss-utils.1.tnvxa0y538s2airy6ikj54e3j
f48280992a78   daz1uk/ss-extra:v1    "docker-entrypoint.s…"   22 minutes ago   Up 37 seconds   6000/tcp    srv-captain--ss-utils.1.o4ajxg6xgx6zgswt7e7gm8cn7

[darrylmorley]

I think this is solved using docker service update <container-name> --force.

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