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docker-compose.yml reference

Each service defined in docker-compose.yml must specify exactly one of image or build. Other keys are optional, and are analogous to their docker run command-line counterparts.

As with docker run, options specified in the Dockerfile (e.g., CMD, EXPOSE, VOLUME, ENV) are respected by default - you don't need to specify them again in docker-compose.yml.

image

Tag or partial image ID. Can be local or remote - Compose will attempt to pull if it doesn't exist locally.

image: ubuntu
image: orchardup/postgresql
image: a4bc65fd

build

Path to a directory containing a Dockerfile. When the value supplied is a relative path, it is interpreted as relative to the location of the yml file itself. This directory is also the build context that is sent to the Docker daemon.

Compose will build and tag it with a generated name, and use that image thereafter.

build: /path/to/build/dir

dockerfile

Alternate Dockerfile.

Compose will use an alternate file to build with.

dockerfile: Dockerfile-alternate

command

Override the default command.

command: bundle exec thin -p 3000

links

Link to containers in another service. Either specify both the service name and the link alias (SERVICE:ALIAS), or just the service name (which will also be used for the alias).

links:
 - db
 - db:database
 - redis

An entry with the alias' name will be created in /etc/hosts inside containers for this service, e.g:

172.17.2.186  db
172.17.2.186  database
172.17.2.187  redis

Environment variables will also be created - see the environment variable reference for details.

external_links

Link to containers started outside this docker-compose.yml or even outside of Compose, especially for containers that provide shared or common services. external_links follow semantics similar to links when specifying both the container name and the link alias (CONTAINER:ALIAS).

external_links:
 - redis_1
 - project_db_1:mysql
 - project_db_1:postgresql

extra_hosts

Add hostname mappings. Use the same values as the docker client --add-host parameter.

extra_hosts:
 - "somehost:162.242.195.82"
 - "otherhost:50.31.209.229"

An entry with the ip address and hostname will be created in /etc/hosts inside containers for this service, e.g:

162.242.195.82  somehost
50.31.209.229   otherhost

ports

Expose ports. Either specify both ports (HOST:CONTAINER), or just the container port (a random host port will be chosen).

Note: When mapping ports in the HOST:CONTAINER format, you may experience erroneous results when using a container port lower than 60, because YAML will parse numbers in the format xx:yy as sexagesimal (base 60). For this reason, we recommend always explicitly specifying your port mappings as strings.

ports:
 - "3000"
 - "8000:8000"
 - "49100:22"
 - "127.0.0.1:8001:8001"

expose

Expose ports without publishing them to the host machine - they'll only be accessible to linked services. Only the internal port can be specified.

expose:
 - "3000"
 - "8000"

volumes

Mount paths as volumes, optionally specifying a path on the host machine (HOST:CONTAINER), or an access mode (HOST:CONTAINER:ro).

volumes:
 - /var/lib/mysql
 - cache/:/tmp/cache
 - ~/configs:/etc/configs/:ro

volumes_from

Mount all of the volumes from another service or container.

volumes_from:
 - service_name
 - container_name

environment

Add environment variables. You can use either an array or a dictionary.

Environment variables with only a key are resolved to their values on the machine Compose is running on, which can be helpful for secret or host-specific values.

environment:
  RACK_ENV: development
  SESSION_SECRET:

environment:
  - RACK_ENV=development
  - SESSION_SECRET

env_file

Add environment variables from a file. Can be a single value or a list.

If you have specified a Compose file with docker-compose -f FILE, paths in env_file are relative to the directory that file is in.

Environment variables specified in environment override these values.

env_file: .env

env_file:
  - ./common.env
  - ./apps/web.env
  - /opt/secrets.env

Compose expects each line in an env file to be in VAR=VAL format. Lines beginning with # (i.e. comments) are ignored, as are blank lines.

# Set Rails/Rack environment
RACK_ENV=development

extends

Extend another service, in the current file or another, optionally overriding configuration.

Here's a simple example. Suppose we have 2 files - common.yml and development.yml. We can use extends to define a service in development.yml which uses configuration defined in common.yml:

common.yml

webapp:
  build: ./webapp
  environment:
    - DEBUG=false
    - SEND_EMAILS=false

development.yml

web:
  extends:
    file: common.yml
    service: webapp
  ports:
    - "8000:8000"
  links:
    - db
  environment:
    - DEBUG=true
db:
  image: postgres

Here, the web service in development.yml inherits the configuration of the webapp service in common.yml - the build and environment keys - and adds ports and links configuration. It overrides one of the defined environment variables (DEBUG) with a new value, and the other one (SEND_EMAILS) is left untouched.

For more on extends, see the tutorial and reference.

labels

Add metadata to containers using Docker labels. You can use either an array or a dictionary.

It's recommended that you use reverse-DNS notation to prevent your labels from conflicting with those used by other software.

labels:
  com.example.description: "Accounting webapp"
  com.example.department: "Finance"
  com.example.label-with-empty-value: ""

labels:
  - "com.example.description=Accounting webapp"
  - "com.example.department=Finance"
  - "com.example.label-with-empty-value"

log driver

Specify a logging driver for the service's containers, as with the --log-driver option for docker run (documented here).

Allowed values are currently json-file, syslog and none. The list will change over time as more drivers are added to the Docker engine.

The default value is json-file.

log_driver: "json-file"
log_driver: "syslog"
log_driver: "none"

net

Networking mode. Use the same values as the docker client --net parameter.

net: "bridge"
net: "none"
net: "container:[name or id]"
net: "host"

pid

pid: "host"

Sets the PID mode to the host PID mode. This turns on sharing between container and the host operating system the PID address space. Containers launched with this flag will be able to access and manipulate other containers in the bare-metal machine's namespace and vise-versa.

dns

Custom DNS servers. Can be a single value or a list.

dns: 8.8.8.8
dns:
  - 8.8.8.8
  - 9.9.9.9

cap_add, cap_drop

Add or drop container capabilities. See man 7 capabilities for a full list.

cap_add:
  - ALL

cap_drop:
  - NET_ADMIN
  - SYS_ADMIN

dns_search

Custom DNS search domains. Can be a single value or a list.

dns_search: example.com
dns_search:
  - dc1.example.com
  - dc2.example.com

devices

List of device mappings. Uses the same format as the --device docker client create option.

devices:
  - "/dev/ttyUSB0:/dev/ttyUSB0"

security_opt

Override the default labeling scheme for each container.

security_opt:
  - label:user:USER
  - label:role:ROLE

working_dir, entrypoint, user, hostname, domainname, mem_limit, privileged, restart, stdin_open, tty, cpu_shares, cpuset, read_only

Each of these is a single value, analogous to its docker run counterpart.

cpu_shares: 73
cpuset: 0,1

working_dir: /code
entrypoint: /code/entrypoint.sh
user: postgresql

hostname: foo
domainname: foo.com

mem_limit: 1000000000
privileged: true

restart: always

stdin_open: true
tty: true
read_only: true

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