Ho can I recreate all my running containers in a single shot? - docker

Question

I have multiple containers which are running. I changed the docker log driver and want all my running containers to start using the new configuration. In docker's documentation, they said all containers must be recreated. I keep my applications in multiple folders, so I can't recreate them with a single command.
I have to go to each of the following folders one by one:
/home/docker/folder1
/home/docker/folder2
/home/docker/folder3
Then run the following command:
/usr/local/bin/docker-compose down
/usr/local/bin/docker-compose up -d
Is there any workaround?
I tried:
# /usr/local/bin/docker-compose down
ERROR:
Can't find a suitable configuration file in this directory or any
parent. Are you in the right directory?
Supported filenames: docker-compose.yml, docker-compose.yaml

Answer 1

You can list all running container and "give" them to docker container restart. For example:
docker container restart $(docker container ls --quiet)
If you only want to do it for container created by compose, use can filter by label
docker container restart \
$(docker container ls --quiet --filter label=com.docker.compose.project)
Alternatively, you can search for all compose files, and do something with them, for more advanced commands. Maybe this is required, if restart does not suffice.
find /home/docker -name docker-compose.yaml -type f \
| while read -r f; do
docker compose --file "$f" up --force-recreate -d
done
Or with xargs
find /home/docker -name docker-compose.yaml -type f \
| xargs --no-run-if-empty -I{} docker compose --file {} up --force-recreate -d
If you have jq installed, you could get the path to the compose files more reliably by using docker compose ls with the JSON formatted output
docker compose ls --format json \
| jq -rc 'map(.ConfigFiles) | .[]' \
| xargs -r -I{} docker compose -f {} up --force-recreate -d
If you want to take care of the name as well, you need to use that from the output too.
docker compose ls --format json \
| jq -c '.[]' | while read -r config; do
docker compose \
-p "$(echo "$config" | jq -r '.Name')" \
-f "$(echo "$config" | jq -r '.ConfigFiles')" \
up --force-recreate -d
done
This is still not 100% solid since you may have used more than 1 config file. In that case, you can replace the commas with colons in the ConfigFiles and set the env variable COMPOSE_FILE
docker compose ls --format json \
| jq -c '.[]' | while read -r config; do
COMPOSE_FILE="$(echo "$config" | jq -r '.ConfigFiles' | tr -s , :)" \
docker compose \
-p "$(echo "$config" | jq -r '.Name')" \
up --force-recreate -d
done
There is still one problem that you can't overcome that way, if you have used specific profiles, you have no way of knowing which ones. So hopefully docker container restart is enough, as it would avoid most issues related to finding compose files and using compose.