Allow retry of 500 API errors to be handled by restart policies #3073
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API error 500 from docker is often recoverable, in our case we typically see this error from a volume driver after a container crashes. The volume driver must wait for a timeout from the now dead container before allowing a new container to mount it. This can take longer than 5 seconds.
Allowing these retires to be handled by the jobs configured restart policies seems to be a more intuitive solution than having a special hard-coded retry just for these errors.