Docker-Compose Create / Start / Stop / Rm / Up / Down

Let’s see the basic command of docker-compose,

docker-compose --help

will list all the options available for the docker-compose command.

Docker-compose create

This command is used to create a container and it will neither create the network and volume nor will start them, it will just create. As shown below output, the docker-compose create command is deprecated and it is suggested to use docker-compose up --no-start flag.

output:

gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$ docker-compose create
WARNING: The create command is deprecated. Use the up command with the --no-start flag instead.
Creating docker-compose_webapp1_1 ... done
Creating docker-compose_webapp2_1 ... done
gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$ docker network ls
NETWORK ID     NAME      DRIVER    SCOPE
0022a9f511fe   bridge    bridge    local
3a33f83c3663   host      host      local
e4ebd601732c   none      null      local
gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$ docker container ls
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE     COMMAND   CREATED   STATUS    PORTS     NAMES
gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$ docker container ls -a
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE     COMMAND                  CREATED          STATUS                   PORTS     NAMES
474f9071d846   nginx     "/docker-entrypoint.…"   16 seconds ago   Created                            docker-compose_webapp2_1
9cae49d2eb8e   nginx     "/docker-entrypoint.…"   16 seconds ago   Created                            docker-compose_webapp1_1
gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$

So, if we run docker-compose up --no-start flag then it will also create the container but it will also create the default network

gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$ docker-compose up --no-start
Creating network "docker-compose_default" with the default driver
Creating docker-compose_webapp1_1 ... done
Creating docker-compose_webapp2_1 ... done
gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$

docker-compose start

this command will start the container as shown below

gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$ ls
docker-compose.yaml
gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$ docker-compose up --no-start
Creating network "docker-compose_default" with the default driver
Creating docker-compose_webapp1_1 ... done
Creating docker-compose_webapp2_1 ... done
gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$ docker container ls -a
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE     COMMAND                  CREATED         STATUS    PORTS     NAMES
29dff16ec850   nginx     "/docker-entrypoint.…"   3 seconds ago   Created             docker-compose_webapp2_1
b23af0a13110   nginx     "/docker-entrypoint.…"   3 seconds ago   Created             docker-compose_webapp1_1
gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$ docker-compose start
Starting webapp1 ... done
Starting webapp2 ... done
gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$

docker-compose stop

will stop the container

gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$ docker-compose stop
Stopping docker-compose_webapp2_1 ... done
Stopping docker-compose_webapp1_1 ... done
gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$ docker container ls -a
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE     COMMAND                  CREATED              STATUS                     PORTS     NAMES
29dff16ec850   nginx     "/docker-entrypoint.…"   About a minute ago   Exited (0) 4 seconds ago             docker-compose_webapp2_1
b23af0a13110   nginx     "/docker-entrypoint.…"   About a minute ago   Exited (0) 4 seconds ago             docker-compose_webapp1_1
gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$

docker-compose rm

will delete the container but it will not remove the network and volume

gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$ docker-compose rm
Going to remove docker-compose_webapp2_1, docker-compose_webapp1_1
Are you sure? [yN] yes
Removing docker-compose_webapp2_1 ... done
Removing docker-compose_webapp1_1 ... done
gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$ docker container ls
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE     COMMAND   CREATED   STATUS    PORTS     NAMES
gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$ docker network ls
NETWORK ID     NAME                     DRIVER    SCOPE
0022a9f511fe   bridge                   bridge    local
6866a6234089   docker-compose_default   bridge    local
3a33f83c3663   host                     host      local
e4ebd601732c   none                     null      local
gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$

docker-compose down

will delete the container along with the network and it can also delete the volume if provided with --volume flag

gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$ docker-compose up -d
Creating docker-compose_webapp1_1 ... done
Creating docker-compose_webapp2_1 ... done
gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$ docker container ls
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE     COMMAND                  CREATED         STATUS         PORTS                  NAMES
0ab41095f13c   nginx     "/docker-entrypoint.…"   7 seconds ago   Up 5 seconds   0.0.0.0:8000->80/tcp   docker-compose_webapp1_1
d1a042047493   nginx     "/docker-entrypoint.…"   7 seconds ago   Up 4 seconds   0.0.0.0:8002->80/tcp   docker-compose_webapp2_1
gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$ docker-compose down
Stopping docker-compose_webapp1_1 ... done
Stopping docker-compose_webapp2_1 ... done
Removing docker-compose_webapp1_1 ... done
Removing docker-compose_webapp2_1 ... done
Removing network docker-compose_default
gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$ docker network ls
NETWORK ID     NAME      DRIVER    SCOPE
0022a9f511fe   bridge    bridge    local
3a33f83c3663   host      host      local
e4ebd601732c   none      null      local
gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$ docker container ls
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE     COMMAND   CREATED   STATUS    PORTS     NAMES
gaurav@learning-ocean:~/docker-compose$

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