Docker, I want only one dependency container to have a condition so the service could start, not every one of them.

@drq after now having some interactions with it in last week - yes, it does

@drq I dont understand, why you hate yaml, if problem in docker?

@redume Because it's YAML's implicit syntax problem.

That's what I actually hate the most about it: it's implicit to Hell and back. Yes, on a glance, the file looks lightweight, there's few words in there, but you have to just somehow "know" a lot of random stuff just to correct an attribute in it.

@drq You have several docker service, however you want to start one service? I dont understand you problem and what you want. I had no problem with yaml

@redume I have one service dependant on the other two.

One has to quit before launching said service, the other should start before launching the service (which is the default behaviour).

So, I can't just put a colon on one of them and have it have a "service_completed_successfully" condition. So this:

```
depends_on:
backendb
launcher:
condition: service_completed_successfully
```

doesn't work. It reports a YAML error without much of a further explanation. Turns out (after googling and a cheeky little ChatGPT query), that I _have_ to have a condition on both of them, or neither:

```
depends_on:
backendb:
condition: service_started
launcher:
condition: service_completed_successfully
```

@drq so the problem is still docker, which doesn't support mixing declaration formats

@redume

@drq Der Ansatz, dass nur eine Abhängigkeits-Container-Instanz eine Bedingung erfüllen muss, um den Dienst zu starten, ist vernünftig. So wird die Skalierbarkeit und Effizienz gewahrt. #Docker #Containerization

@drq
YAML is a strict superset of JSON, a valid JSON file is also valid YAML

@snakequake

> strict

Yeah, right.

@drq @snakequake какой ужас...

@drq the absolute madman among data languages, merely needs a straightjacket to cease to be a menace to society and to itself.

And by straightjacket I mean a linter with a restrictive style guide. Though I've never seen anyone actually deploy something like this.