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Synchronous Container Startup in Docker Compose

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💡 wait-for-it is a zero dependency bash script that waits until a service (eg. DB) is ready. It's better than depends_on in Compose because it actually waits for the process to be up, not just container.

https://github.com/vishnubob/wait-for-it/blob/master/wait-for-it.sh

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