TritonDataCenter/containerpilot

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1130 stars · 135 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

ContainerPilot is an init system and process supervisor designed to run inside containers. It automates service registration and discovery via Consul, runs health checks, reconfigures applications at runtime, and manages container lifecycle events.

Use cases

• register containerized apps with a service catalog like Consul
• discover dependent services dynamically at runtime
• supervise processes and reap zombies inside a container
• run health checks and reconfigure apps when dependencies change
• run lifecycle hooks on container start and shutdown
• wire up multi-container apps like WordPress with MySQL and Memcached

When to choose

• you run legacy apps in containers that can't natively talk to Consul or Etcd
• you need an init system with built-in service discovery and health checks in each container
• you want runtime reconfiguration of apps like Nginx upstreams as services scale

When to avoid

• you use Kubernetes or another orchestrator that already handles discovery and lifecycle
• you're starting a new project on modern tooling, as the project is in maintenance mode
• you need service discovery without Consul

Facets

service · maturity maintenance

service-discovery configuration-management scheduling monitoring microservices self-hosted go init-system consul process-supervisor health-checks container-lifecycle containers devops linux docker

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