Links is going away, what then?

[HelloGrayson]

Looks like the links feature in Docker Compose is deprecated - what's the plan once this goes away?

Found this tool by reading docker/compose#686 & docker/compose#374 - looks super useful.

[tobischo]

waitforservices uses the env variables which are set by linking containers.
Even if links is going away in compose, you'd have to have a way of making containers accessible to one another. I doubt that the way of accessing the way containers are exposed to one-another will change to anything else but environment variables, so unless the naming schema changes as it is used here https://github.com/Barzahlen/waitforservices/blob/master/main.go#L95
waitforservices

[mfrister]

Unfortunately, env variables are actually going to go away.

I don't have a plan yet on how to get a list of depencencies of a service from within a container - we'll probably have to find a way to access compose' new depends_on option.