Harden devcontainer MongoDB startup to prevent transient postCreate failures#1
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[WIP] Fix Codespace not creating properly due to postcreateCommand failure
Harden devcontainer MongoDB startup to prevent transient postCreate failures
Mar 3, 2026
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Codespace creation was failing during
postCreateCommandbecause the MongoDB shell readiness check could return non-zero whilemongodwas still coming up. This made container setup brittle even when startup was otherwise successful.Root cause in setup flow
.devcontainer/postCreate.shinvokes.devcontainer/startMongoDB.sh.startMongoDB.shtreatedmongosh --eval ...as mandatory and failed the whole post-create step on transient startup timing.Targeted fix
Behavioral impact
mongodis started butmongoshis not immediately ready.Original prompt
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