Enable random delay on start to avoid captcha

[GAS85]

By parallel execution some containers will be blocked by captcha, this can be avoided by random delay on start.

[vogler]

Can you give some details for what this is needed? Multiple containers for multiple epic-games accounts that you want to run in parallel instead of sequentially?
How do you schedule the runs? Why not change the start time there?

[GAS85]

Hey, I do, when I use cron, I can manage start and sequence no problem here.

Problem for me that I do specify all settings it in the docker-compose file, so whenever I stat/restart docker compose all containers will be starter automatically parallel in this case usually some of them are blocked with captcha. I would like to introduce this optional delay to avoid this situation and use my docker-compose -f /var/docker/docker-compose.yaml up -d as usual for all containers.

[vogler]

Couldn't you just prefix some of the command entries in your docker-compose.yaml with sleep 30; (sleep 60; etc.)?
Also see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31746182/docker-compose-wait-for-container-x-before-starting-y

[GAS85]

I can even put sleep $((RANDOM % 300)); ...
I just thought it will be cool to support it out of the box.
Besides you already use CMD to control what to start and I do not want to end up with not working solution in some days, because CMD part was updated. Using Variable here is harmless.

Also see

depends_on solution will not help here to provide same feature.

[GAS85]

Any reason to not merge it?
I solved it temporary by using following cron job, but this is not so flexible and easy to configure as I would like to have:

perl -le 'sleep rand 900' && docker start games-claimer-user1; perl -le 'sleep rand 900' && docker start games-claimer-user2 ; perl -le 'sleep rand 900' && docker start games-claimer-user3 ;  perl -le 'sleep rand 900' && docker start games-claimer-user4