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fix(worker): give the worker a real health endpoint (#10987) The image bakes in a single HEALTHCHECK that curls http://localhost:8080/readyz, but the same image also runs `local-ai worker`, which serves HTTP on the gRPC base port minus one and never binds 8080. Every worker container was therefore permanently `unhealthy` (43 consecutive failures observed on a production node), which is worse than having no healthcheck: a genuinely broken worker and a perfectly good one both report `unhealthy`, so the signal carries no information and orchestration that keys on it misbehaves. The worker already served /readyz on that port via the file-transfer server, but as a constant 200 — it only proved the listener was bound, which is precisely the failure mode at issue. Readiness now tracks the live NATS connection: all of a worker's actual work (backend lifecycle events, inference dispatch, file staging) arrives over NATS, so a worker whose link is dead is up and useless. Registration is already implied, since the server only starts after registration succeeds. This reports something the controller cannot already see. The node registry's status/last_heartbeat is fed by an HTTP heartbeat to the frontend, a different network path from NATS — a worker can keep heartbeating while its NATS connection is dead and still look healthy in the registry. /healthz stays a constant 200: liveness must not follow readiness, or a NATS blip becomes a cluster-wide restart storm. The HEALTHCHECK is now a script that derives its endpoint from the mode the container is actually running plus the env vars that configure the bind address, so a frontend moved off 8080 with LOCALAI_ADDRESS (broken the same way) and a worker on a non-default base port are both probed correctly. Modes with no HTTP surface (agent-worker, one-shot commands) report healthy rather than false-unhealthy. HEALTHCHECK_ENDPOINT remains as an explicit override, so the workaround shipped in docker-compose.distributed.yaml keeps working; both overrides in that file are now unnecessary and have been removed. Also fixes the latent --start-period gap. Since #10949 a frontend's startup preload materializes HuggingFace artifacts before the HTTP server binds (31 GB observed on a live cluster), so a healthy replica can legitimately fail probes for a long time. --start-period is Docker's knob for exactly this: failures inside it leave the container `starting` instead of burning retries, and it ends early on the first success, so a generous 60m costs a fast-starting container nothing. --timeout drops from 10m to 10s — it is a per-probe deadline, and a localhost curl that has not answered in 10s is itself the fault being detected. Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4-8[1m] [Read] [Edit] [Bash] Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>