This project contains scripts to restart Docker service and containers in case of Docker daemon failure.

• Distribution with installed systemd
• Docker daemon managed by the systemd

• Python 3

• pip for Python 3

• D-Bus library for Python 3

• Additional Python packages:

  pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Execute every 30 minutes using crontab. Edit root crontab:

sudo crontab -e

Add new line like:

*/30 * * * * /root/bin/docker-watchdog/daemon_monitor.py > /dev/null 2>&1

Logs are sent to the syslog daemon facility using UDP connection. Please ensure the syslog service is listening the UDP 514 port on the localhost.