docker-validator

You can validate Docker container health checks by verifying healthcheck coverage across all services and testing endpoint responses. This ensures your containers meet Stage 5 compliance requirements before finalization, capturing a stable baseline for later restoration if needed.

To prevent state bleed between Docker Compose test runs, capture a pre-test baseline state and restore it after tests complete. This deterministic state capture and restoration approach preserves your environment configuration across multiple CI deployment cycles.

Docker environment validation works for both local and CI deployments by verifying the Docker Engine, Compose availability, and endpoint responses. It requires a running Docker daemon and a valid docker-compose.yml path to execute properly.

You can test authenticated Docker endpoints during container validation by providing credentials to the validation process. It tests both unauthenticated and authenticated endpoint responses, ensuring secure zero-log credential handling while generating a comprehensive summary report.

A Docker validation summary report includes verification results for the Docker Engine, Compose availability, healthcheck coverage, and endpoint responses. It also contains an explicit checkpoint file capturing the pre-test baseline state for restoration purposes.

Capturing a pre-test baseline before running Docker endpoint tests allows you to restore the original environment state afterward. This prevents configuration drift and state bleed between test runs, satisfying deterministic state capture requirements for reliable deployments.