You can define any order or restart behavior you need with v2. As long any container with a service dependency fail hards if that dependency is missing/down, it

You can define any order or restart behavior you need with v2. As long any container with a service dependency fail hards if that dependency is missing/down, it will be restarted and the whole app will eventually reach an up state. restart: on-failure depends_on: other_service: condition: service_healthy https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/compose-file-v2/#restart https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/compose-file-v2... https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/compose-file-v2/#depends_on https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/compose-file-v2...