docker-compose up for only certain containers

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I have a docker-compose yml which contain several containers   Three of them are for my app  client  server and database  and the rest are for various dev tools  e g  psql  npm  manage py  etc    When I do docker-compose up all of them are started  but I only want the three main ones to start   Because of the links I ve specified  I can start just those three with docker-compose up client but then the output is only from that one container  So  is there a way to do one of the following    Tell docker-compose which containers should by started by docker-compose up Get output from all linked containers from docker-compose up client

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You can start containers by using     docker-compose up -d client   This will run containers in the background and output will be avaiable from    docker-compose logs   and it will consist of all your started containers

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I actually had a very similar challenge on my current project  That broght me to the idea of writing a small script which I called docker-compose-profile  or short  dcp   I published this today on GitLab as docker-compose-profile  So in short  I now can start several predefined docker-compose profiles using a command like dcp -p some-services  quot up -d quot   Feel free to try it out and give some feedback or suggestions for further improvements

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Update Starting with docker-compose 1 28 0 the new service profiles are just made for that  With profiles you can mark services to be only started in specific profiles  services    client              db              npm      profiles    quot cli-only quot              docker-compose up   start main services  no npm docker-compose run --rm npm   run npm service docker-compose --profile cli-only   start main and all  quot cli-only quot  services   original answer Since docker-compose v1 5 it is possible to pass multiple docker-compose yml files with the -f flag  This allows you to split your dev tools into a separate docker-compose yml which you then only include on-demand    start and attach to all your essential services docker-compose up    execute a defined command in docker-compose dev yml docker-compose -f docker-compose dev yml run npm update    if your command depends on a service you need to include both configs docker-compose -f docker-compose yml -f docker-compose dev yml run npm update  For an in-depth discussion on this see docker compose 1896

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Oh  just with this     docker-compose up client server database

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You can use the run command and specify your services to run  Be careful  the run command does not expose ports to the host  You should use the flag --service-ports to do that if needed  docker-compose run --service-ports client server database

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To start a particular service defined in your docker-compose file  for example if your have a docker-compose yml docker-compose start db    given a compose file like as  version   3 3   services     db       image  mysql 5 7      ports         -  quot 3306 3306 quot       volumes         -   db data  var lib mysql      restart  always      environment         MYSQL ROOT PASSWORD  yourPassword        MYSQL DATABASE  wordpress        MYSQL USER  wordpress        MYSQL PASSWORD  yourPassword     wordpress       depends on         - db      image  wordpress latest      ports         -  quot 80 80 quot       volumes         -   l3html  var www html      restart  always      environment         WORDPRESS DB HOST  db 3306        WORDPRESS DB USER  wordpress        WORDPRESS DB PASSWORD  yourPassword volumes      db data      l3html   Some times you want to start mySQL only  sometimes you just want to populate a database  before you start your entire suite

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You usually don t want to do this  With Docker Compose you define services that compose your app  npm and manage py are just management commands  You don t need a container for them  If you need to  say create your database tables with manage py  all you have to do is   docker-compose run client python manage py create db   Think of it as the one-off dynos Heroku uses   If you really need to treat these management commands as separate containers  and also use Docker Compose for these   you could create a separate  yml file and start Docker Compose with the following command   docker-compose up -f my custom docker compose yml

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One good solution is to run only desired services like this   docker-compose up --build    lt services txt    and services txt file look like this   services1 services2  etc   of course if dependancy  depends on   need to run related services together   --build is optional  just for example

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