See the post at Stack Overflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30310602/docker-container-cant-leverage-external-cloudant-service-network-resolution
It should state in the documentation that it is necessary to write start scripts with delay if accessing external network. 1 second seems to be enough for me.
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