Gitpod ports await look also is the service available

[shyim]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

When you start a MySQL server in Docker and you want to execute a MySQL command directly it's annoying as you have to wait for the right moment where the server is available

With gp ports await 3306 you get notified when the port is reachable. But port reachable is not the same as useable. You get then weird errors like `MySQL server has gone away'.

Describe the behaviour you'd like

Add an --type mysql to the command to try to connect to the MySQL server instead of just looking is the port open

Describe alternatives you've considered

until mysqladmin ping; do
          sleep 1
done

Works but for DX it would be better I guess when it would be easier to do that

Additional context

I would like to implement that also

Originally asked at Discord.

[mustard-mh]

Hey @shyim , you can use https://github.com/atkrad/wait4x instead now. (I used it before, and worked well)

You can put it inside dotfile if you use it everywhere

[shyim]

Do we want to install that, maybe by default into the workspace? Maybe we could also just import that package and call it in the gp of gitpod if the license allows that

[mustard-mh]

@loujaybee upvote to bring it in gp-cli

[akosyakov]

Where you will draw a line what should be built in and what should be on the top? Should we support each service out there via providing basic building blocks and let users to build on the top? Without a criteria we will simply bloat the cli.

[akosyakov]

We could consider for instance different design via .gitpod.yml:

- ports:
  - port: 3306
    probe: 
      cmd: mysqladmin ping;

[shyim]

In my case I used Docker. Maybe just wait for the health check of the docker container? So it's more generic solution?

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