Manually run a container healthcheck with podman healthcheck run

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Documented steps

  1. Ensure the target container is running and was created with a defined healthcheck (e.g. a HEALTHCHECK directive in the image or --health-cmd).
  2. Trigger the healthcheck immediately: `podman healthcheck run <container>`.
  3. Read the exit code: 0 means the healthcheck command succeeded, 1 means it failed, 125 means an error occurred.
  4. In automation, add --ignore-result to always exit 0 (useful while the container is still in its startup period).

Known gotchas

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