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# 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 ~
```

```bash
mkdir -p compose/commands
```

```bash
cd compose/commands
```

Step 2: Create a docker-compose file:

```bash
touch docker-compose.yml
```

docker-compose.yml contents:

```yml
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:

```bash
docker-compose up -d
```

Step 5: List containers created by compose:

```bash
docker-compose ps
```

Step 6: Stopping a compose service:

```bash
docker-compose stop
```

Step 7: Starting a compose service:

```bash
docker-compose start
```

Step 8: Restarting a compose service:

```bash
docker-compose restart
```

Step 9: Delete a compose service:

```bash
docker-compose down
```