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vishnubob
wait-for-it
Python2021–2025
vishnubob / wait-for-it

wait-for-it

Pure bash script to test and wait on the availability of a TCP host and port

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
9.8KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Pure bash script to test and wait on the availability of a TCP host and port

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-09-02 16:32:47 UTC to 2025-09-17 02:21:36 UTC.

012021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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So the elevator pitch for this is "if wait-for [1] isn't sufficient and you want a go lang binary to evaluate the behavior or response of the request"? https://github.com/vishnubob/wait-for-it I however suspect that I wouldn't use it, if I was still working in devops. The niche where a simple wait for the port is insufficient is _extremely_ rare in practice... Because almost everything that needs such either already has the concept of a readiness check to make it available (k8s, LBs, etc) or will retry automatically given the port being open (DB connections etc)
In Wait4X allows you to wait for a port or a service to enter the requested state

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