What this PR does / why we need it:
There's a long ticket claiming that the Docker driver would deadlock when the configured Loki endpoint becomes unreachable. The root cause is that the Loki client retries forever until it can reach Loki again. This looks like a deadlock.
This issues is documented with a workaround. However, users still struggle. That's why this change proposes to make the workaround the default behavior.
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What this PR does / why we need it: There's a long ticket claiming that the Docker driver would deadlock when the configured Loki endpoint becomes unreachable. The root cause is that the Loki client retries forever until it can reach Loki again. This looks like a deadlock.
This issues is documented with a workaround. However, users still struggle. That's why this change proposes to make the workaround the default behavior.
Which issue(s) this PR fixes: Fixes #2361
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CONTRIBUTING.mdguide (required)featPRs are unlikely to be accepted unless a case can be made for the feature actually being a bug fix to existing behavior.docs/sources/setup/upgrade/_index.mddeprecated-config.yamlanddeleted-config.yamlfiles respectively in thetools/deprecated-config-checkerdirectory. Example PR