Up/down

This page provides an overview of the options and features you can utilize when running or stopping projects in Docker Compose.

Specify service

You can specify an exact service to run with docker compose up by providing the service name(s) after up. Only the specified services will be started.

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The following cell defines compose.yml with three services, each of which outputs its name during execution.

cat << EOF > /tmp/compose.yml
services:
    linux1:
        image: alpine
        command: sh -c "echo message_linux1"
    linux2:
        image: alpine
        command: sh -c "echo message_linux2"
    linux3:
        image: alpine
        command: sh -c "echo message_linux3"
EOF

The following cell executes up without specification of the services that have to be runned. As result - invocations from all services (invocations are highlited in the output).

docker compose -f /tmp/compose.yml up
docker compose -f /tmp/compose.yml down &> /dev/null

?25l[+] Running 0/0
 ⠋ Network tmp_default  Creating                                           0.1s 
?25h?25l[+] Running 1/1
 ✔ Network tmp_default     Created                                         0.1s 
 ⠋ Container tmp-linux3-1  Creating                                        0.1s 
 ⠋ Container tmp-linux2-1  Creating                                        0.1s 
 ⠋ Container tmp-linux1-1  Creating                                        0.1s 
?25h?25l[+] Running 4/4
 ✔ Network tmp_default     Created                                         0.1s 
 ✔ Container tmp-linux3-1  Created                                         0.1s 
 ✔ Container tmp-linux2-1  Created                                         0.1s 
 ✔ Container tmp-linux1-1  Created                                         0.1s 
?25hAttaching to linux1-1, linux2-1, linux3-1
linux1-1  | message_linux1
linux2-1  | message_linux2
linux3-1  | message_linux3
linux1-1 exited with code 0
linux3-1 exited with code 0
linux2-1 exited with code 0

But if you specify only the linux1 and linux3 services, there will be output only from those two.

docker compose -f /tmp/compose.yml up linux1 linux3
docker compose -f /tmp/compose.yml down &> /dev/null

?25l[+] Running 0/0
 ⠋ Network tmp_default  Creating                                           0.1s 
?25h?25l[+] Running 1/1
 ✔ Network tmp_default     Created                                         0.1s 
 ⠋ Container tmp-linux1-1  Creating                                        0.1s 
 ⠋ Container tmp-linux3-1  Creating                                        0.1s 
?25h?25l[+] Running 3/3
 ✔ Network tmp_default     Created                                         0.1s 
 ✔ Container tmp-linux1-1  Created                                         0.1s 
 ✔ Container tmp-linux3-1  Created                                         0.1s 
?25hAttaching to linux1-1, linux3-1
linux3-1  | message_linux3
linux1-1  | message_linux1
linux3-1 exited with code 0
linux1-1 exited with code 0

linux2 wasn’t stated.