compose/docs/reference/compose_up.md
Milas Bowman caad72713b up: handle various attach use cases better
By default, `compose up` attaches to all services (i.e.
shows log output from every associated container). If
a service is specified, e.g. `compose up foo`, then
only `foo`'s logs are tailed. The `--attach-dependencies`
flag can also be used, so that if `foo` depended upon
`bar`, then `bar`'s logs would also be followed. It's
also possible to use `--no-attach` to filter out one
or more services explicitly, e.g. `compose up --no-attach=noisy`
would launch all services, including `noisy`, and would
show log output from every service _except_ `noisy`.
Lastly, it's possible to use `up --attach` to explicitly
restrict to a subset of services (or their dependencies).

How these flags interact with each other is also worth
thinking through.

There were a few different connected issues here, but
the primary issue was that running `compose up foo` was
always attaching dependencies regardless of `--attach-dependencies`.

The filtering logic here has been updated so that it
behaves predictably both when launching all services
(`compose up`) or a subset (`compose up foo`) as well
as various flag combinations on top of those.

Notably, this required making some changes to how it
watches containers. The logic here between attaching
for logs and monitoring for lifecycle changes is
tightly coupled, so some changes were needed to ensure
that the full set of services being `up`'d are _watched_
and the subset that should have logs shown are _attached_.
(This does mean faking the attach with an event but not
actually doing it.)

While handling that, I adjusted the context lifetimes
here, which improves error handling that gets shown to
the user and should help avoid potential leaks by getting
rid of a `context.Background()`.

Signed-off-by: Milas Bowman <milas.bowman@docker.com>
2023-08-18 12:38:38 +02:00

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docker compose up

Create and start containers

Options

Name Type Default Description
--abort-on-container-exit Stops all containers if any container was stopped. Incompatible with -d
--always-recreate-deps Recreate dependent containers. Incompatible with --no-recreate.
--attach stringArray Restrict attaching to the specified services. Incompatible with --attach-dependencies.
--attach-dependencies Automatically attach to log output of dependent services.
--build Build images before starting containers.
-d, --detach Detached mode: Run containers in the background
--dry-run Execute command in dry run mode
--exit-code-from string Return the exit code of the selected service container. Implies --abort-on-container-exit
--force-recreate Recreate containers even if their configuration and image haven't changed.
--no-attach stringArray Do not attach (stream logs) to the specified services.
--no-build Don't build an image, even if it's missing.
--no-color Produce monochrome output.
--no-deps Don't start linked services.
--no-log-prefix Don't print prefix in logs.
--no-recreate If containers already exist, don't recreate them. Incompatible with --force-recreate.
--no-start Don't start the services after creating them.
--pull string missing Pull image before running ("always"|"missing"|"never")
--quiet-pull Pull without printing progress information.
--remove-orphans Remove containers for services not defined in the Compose file.
-V, --renew-anon-volumes Recreate anonymous volumes instead of retrieving data from the previous containers.
--scale stringArray Scale SERVICE to NUM instances. Overrides the scale setting in the Compose file if present.
-t, --timeout int 0 Use this timeout in seconds for container shutdown when attached or when containers are already running.
--timestamps Show timestamps.
--wait Wait for services to be running|healthy. Implies detached mode.
--wait-timeout int 0 Maximum duration to wait for the project to be running|healthy.

Description

Builds, (re)creates, starts, and attaches to containers for a service.

Unless they are already running, this command also starts any linked services.

The docker compose up command aggregates the output of each container (like docker compose logs --follow does). One can optionally select a subset of services to attach to using --attach flag, or exclude some services using --no-attach to prevent output to be flooded by some verbose services.

When the command exits, all containers are stopped. Running docker compose up --detach starts the containers in the background and leaves them running.

If there are existing containers for a service, and the services configuration or image was changed after the containers creation, docker compose up picks up the changes by stopping and recreating the containers (preserving mounted volumes). To prevent Compose from picking up changes, use the --no-recreate flag.

If you want to force Compose to stop and recreate all containers, use the --force-recreate flag.

If the process encounters an error, the exit code for this command is 1. If the process is interrupted using SIGINT (ctrl + C) or SIGTERM, the containers are stopped, and the exit code is 0.