Kong Docker image is hanging at startup (on Kubernetes only)

[pamiel]

This issue is declared here to help people facing the same problem and searching it into this specific docker-kong repo, as the problem is specific to the deployment of Kong as a Docker image (and more specifically in a Kubernetes environment).
However, the overall description is provided here Kong/kong#4559.

A possible workaround (waiting for a more resilient implementation of the DNS query for Cassandra in Kong) is to insert a sleep 5 or a fake DNS lookup (e.g. nslookup fake) in the docker-entrypoint.sh script before running the nginx command (e.g. at the very beginning of the script).

[hutchic]

thanks for the cross-link. I'm going to close this issue and continue debugging / investigating on the linked issue.

One point of clarity this is ONLY with Cassandra. We have functional tests that exercise Kong with postgres (the cassandra ones are a work in progress) so can say with certainty that this issue is isolated to Cassandra