Remove healthcheck from Portainer service#307
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The Portainer health check is being removed because the official portainer/portainer-ce image is a minimal scratch-based image that does not include common utilities such as wget, curl, nc, or pgrep. As a result, meaningful Docker health checks cannot be implemented reliably without switching to a different image variant. Since the container already uses restart: always, Docker will continue to restart Portainer if the process exits. Users who require availability monitoring are encouraged to use an external monitoring solution such as Uptime Kuma. This will fix #305
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Portainer: Remove healthcheck from Portainer service
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The Portainer health check is being removed because the official portainer/portainer-ce image is a minimal scratch-based image that does not include common utilities such as wget, curl, nc, or pgrep.
As a result, meaningful Docker health checks cannot be implemented reliably without switching to a different image variant. Since the container already uses restart: always, Docker will continue to restart Portainer if the process exits.
Users who require availability monitoring are encouraged to use an external monitoring solution such as Uptime Kuma.
This will fix #305
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