Hi @branchespark, welcome to the balena community : )
I think Pablo’s response here is applicable for your scenario as well:
Docker also provides some hints on how to make this work with external tools / scripts:
As for balena: Right now depends_on
controls the order services are started, but it doesn’t restart dependent services. We have an internal feature request about it. I’ll add your +1 to that and notify here when we release it.
I hope that one of the workarounds explained in the other thread or by in the docker docs is sufficient for now. Let us know how you proceed with it.