Docker compose file: docker-compose.yml

Review different versions of docker-compose.yml

• https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/
• Options: https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/compose-versioning/#versioning

YAML Explained

Version and at least one service is needed.

version: "3.9"
services:
 ...
volumes: 
 ...
config:
...
secrets:
...
networks: 
 ...

Version 3

https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/compose-versioning/#versioning

• Version 3 resource limitation

Removed options: volume_driver, volumes_from, cpu_shares, cpu_quota, cpuset, mem_limit, memswap_limit, extends, group_add

v3.8

• max_replicas_per_node in placement configurations

v3.7 (18.06.0+) (2018-07-17)

• init in service definitions
• rollback_config in deploy configurations
• Support for extension fields at the root of service, network, volume, secret and config definitions

v3.6 (8.02.0+)

• tmpfs size for tmpfs-type mounts

v3.5

• isolation in service definitions
• name for networks, secrets and configs
• shm_size in build configurations

v3.2

• CACHE_FROM added

v3.1 (2017-02-08)

• Introduces support for secrets
• docker-compose top

Restart policy

• Version 3: https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/#restart_policy

restart: "no"         (default)
restart: always
restart: on-failure
restart: unless-stopped

restart_policy:
        condition: on-failure
        delay: 5s
        max_attempts: 3
        window: 120s

• Version 2:

- restart: no|always|on-failure</code><ref>https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/compose-file-v2/</ref>

logging

• https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/#logging

driver: none|local|json-file|syslog|journald|gelf|fluentd|awslogs|splunk|etwlogs|gcplogs|logentries

json-file is the default option

See also: docker logs: docker logs --since 1h CONTAINER_NAME

Related terms

• depends_on
• container_name https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/#container_name
• mem_limit
• domainname, hostname, ipc, mac_address, privileged, read_only, shm_size, stdin_open, tty, user, working_dir
• docker-compose up

See also

• Dockerfile
• Version 3 resouces
• docker-compose.yml: services:, volumes:, configs:, secrets:, networks:, driver:, depends_on:, extends:
• docker-compose, docker-compose.yml: [services | volumes | networks | up | down | restart | logs | create | changelog | version | secrets | config | -v | -h | exec], docker-compose pull, Environment:, Docker-compose.yml examples, .env, release notes, expose:, docker-compose --env-file, services.deploy.resources

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