How to use the Health Check of Docker containers?

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Issue

In Docker v1.12 was introduced a feature called Health Check, which supplies important additional information for running containers in complex environments.
The container may be up but without Health Check instruction it is hard for the application inside the container to provide a status.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host

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