Describe the bug

When one service has a health check attacked in a docker compose file, and another service depends on the first service's condition to be service_healthy, OrbStack does not appear to be waiting appropriately, at least before running hooks, as alternatives like Docker and Podman do.

To Reproduce

Compose file outline

Create a docker compose file matching the following outline

• 2+ services
• 1 service that has a health check that will not complete immediately (say a timeout of 15 seconds for debugging purposes)
• 1 service that relies on the first service being healthy before it can run
  • My configuration has a post start hook that connects to the database, which when using OrbStack will about 50% of the time run before the database is ready to accept connections.

Example compose file

Note that I replaced the second service with hello-world as the service I am using relies on a custom image that is not easily shareable. To more easily see the error, a different image that can connect to the database in the post_start hook could be used.

volumes:
  mysql_data:

services:
  db:
    image: mariadb:lts
    restart: always
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: example_root_password
      MYSQL_DATABASE: example_database
      MYSQL_USER: example_user
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: example_user_password
    volumes:
      - mysql_data:/var/lib/mysql
    ports:
      - "3306:3306"
    healthcheck:
      test:
        [
          "CMD",
          "healthcheck.sh",
          "--connect",
          "--innodb_initialized",
          "--innodb_buffer_pool_loaded",
        ]
      start_period: 15s
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 3

  backend:
    image: hello-world:latest
    depends_on:
      db:
        condition: service_healthy

Expected behavior

OrbStack waits for the db service to be considered healthy, reports it as such, and then begins starting the backend service.

Diagnostic report (REQUIRED)

OrbStack info:
Version: 2.2.5
Commit: bf842321f95fc3ca7cda3227bf0cd41cb188c471 (v2.2.5)

System info:
macOS: 27.2 (26B123)
CPU: arm64, 10 cores
CPU model: Apple M5
Model: Mac17,2
Memory: 16 GiB

Full report: https://orbstack.dev/_admin/diag/orbstack-diagreport_2026-11-08T10-08-36.359529Z.zip

Screenshots and additional context (optional)

Output from OrbStack

Output from Podman on linux

Note the Healthy text next to the db service which is not present on OrbStack