Overview of docker compose CLI
Table of contents
This page provides usage information for the docker compose
command.
Command options overview and help
You can also see this information by running docker compose --help
from the
command line.
Usage: docker compose [OPTIONS] COMMAND
Define and run multi-container applications with Docker.
Options:
--ansi string Control when to print ANSI control characters ("never"|"always"|"auto") (default "auto")
--compatibility Run compose in backward compatibility mode
--dry-run Execute command in dry run mode
--env-file stringArray Specify an alternate environment file
-f, --file stringArray Compose configuration files
--parallel int Control max parallelism, -1 for unlimited (default -1)
--profile stringArray Specify a profile to enable
--progress string Set type of progress output (auto, tty, plain, quiet) (default "auto")
--project-directory string Specify an alternate working directory
(default: the path of the, first specified, Compose file)
-p, --project-name string Project name
Commands:
attach Attach local standard input, output, and error streams to a service's running container.
build Build or rebuild services
config Parse, resolve and render compose file in canonical format
cp Copy files/folders between a service container and the local filesystem
create Creates containers for a service.
down Stop and remove containers, networks
events Receive real time events from containers.
exec Execute a command in a running container.
images List images used by the created containers
kill Force stop service containers.
logs View output from containers
ls List running compose projects
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 service containers
rm Removes stopped service containers
run Run a one-off command on a service.
scale Scale services
start Start services
stats Display a live stream of container(s) resource usage statistics
stop Stop services
top Display the running processes
unpause Unpause services
up Create and start containers
version Show the Docker Compose version information
wait Block until the first service container stops
watch Watch build context for service and rebuild/refresh containers when files are updated
Run 'docker compose COMMAND --help' for more information on a command.
You can use Docker Compose binary, docker compose [-f <arg>...] [options] [COMMAND] [ARGS...]
, to build and manage multiple services in Docker containers.