Example of how ContainerPilot handles jobs that continue running past their interval setting

containerpilot.json5

{
  consul: "consul:8500",
  logging: {
    level: "DEBUG",
    format: "text"
  },
  jobs: [
    {
      name: "test-repeats",
      exec: "/usr/local/bin/test-sleep.sh",
      when: {
        interval: "10s",
      },
    }
  ],
  control: {
    socket: "/tmp/cp-single.socket"
  }
}

Dockerfile

FROM alpine:latest

RUN apk update && \
    apk add curl bash

# Install ContainerPilot
ENV CONTAINERPILOT_VER=3.5.1
ENV CONTAINERPILOT=/etc/containerpilot.json5

RUN export CONTAINERPILOT_CHECKSUM=7ee8e59588b6b593325930b0dc18d01f666031d7 \
    && curl -Lso /tmp/containerpilot.tar.gz \
         "https://github.com/joyent/containerpilot/releases/download/${CONTAINERPILOT_VER}/containerpilot-${CONTAINERPILOT_VER}.tar.gz" \
    && echo "${CONTAINERPILOT_CHECKSUM}  /tmp/containerpilot.tar.gz" | sha1sum -c \
    && tar zxf /tmp/containerpilot.tar.gz -C /bin \
    && rm /tmp/containerpilot.tar.gz

# COPY ContainerPilot configuration
COPY containerpilot.json5 /etc/containerpilot.json5

# Install our application
COPY test-sleep.sh /usr/local/bin

EXPOSE 3001
CMD ["/bin/containerpilot"]

test-sleep.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

SLEEPY_TIME=$[ ( $RANDOM % 30 )  + 1 ]s

echo "Going to sleep for $SLEEPY_TIME"

date -R
sleep $SLEEPY_TIME
date -R