Docker Compose Commands

Docker Compose Commands

In this lesson, we will start using compose by creating a compose file. Then we will create and manage the services by using the most commonly used commands:

build: Build or rebuild services

bundle: Generate a Docker bundle from the Compose file

config: Validate and view the Compose file '

create: Create services

down: Stop and remove containers, networks, images, and volumes events: Receive real time events from containers

exec: Execute a command in a running container

help: Get help on a command

images: List images

kill: Kill containers logs: View output from containers

pause: Pause services port: Print the public port for a port binding ps: List containers pull: Pull service images push: Push service images

restart: Restart services rm: Remove stopped containers run: Run a one-off command scale: Set number of containers for a service

start: Start services

stop: Stop services

top: Display the running processes

unpause: Unpause services

up: Create and start containers

version: Show the Docker-Compose version information

Instructions

Step 1: Setup your environment:

cd ~

mkdir -p compose/commands

cd compose/commands

Step 2: Create a docker-compose file:

touch docker-compose.yml

docker-compose.yml contents:

version: '3'
services:
  web:
    image: nginx
    ports:
    - "8080:80"
    volumes:
    - nginx_html:/usr/share/nginx/html/
    links:
    - redis
  redis:
    image: redis
volumes:
  nginx_html: {}

Step 4: Create a compose service:

docker-compose up -d

Step 5: List containers created by compose:

docker-compose ps

Step 6: Stopping a compose service:

docker-compose stop

Step 7: Starting a compose service:

docker-compose start

Step 8: Restarting a compose service:

docker-compose restart

Step 9: Delete a compose service:

docker-compose down