Docker database migration should be automatic (default setting)

[tjb-altf4]

What happened?

I noticed that database migrations are not automatic in docker. For those of us who automate our docker upgrades, or perhaps don't pay attention after pulling new image, this causes the container to silently fail (the node drops out) and the container will stop if a database migration is required.

I've seen the related issue #3145, and I'd suggest instead that --upgrade should be the default arg.
Instead, for the (few?) use cases where migrations are not wanted, the use of static tags to stay on previous builds, or manually overriding of the docker CMD should be preferred.

In my own case, I have now added start --upgrade to the container startup args to cover this scenario, so at a minimum this should be added to documentation as a recommended start-up command for the average user.

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0.1.68

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tjb_altf4

[hughy]

There is also a config variable, databaseMigrate, that you can set to true to set your node to automatically apply migrations on start