Nginx do not start with docker-compose run command - docker

Question

I am dockerizing my existing application. But there's a strange issue. When i start my application with
docker-compose up
each service in the docker-compose runs successfully with no issues. But there are some services which i don't want to run sometimes (celery, celerybeat etc). For that i run
docker-compose run nginx
the above command should run nginx, web, db services as configured with docker-compose.yml but it only runs web and db not nginx.
Here's my yml file
docker-compose.yml
version: '3'
services:
db:
image: postgres:12
env_file: .env
environment:
- POSTGRES_DB=${DB_NAME}
- POSTGRES_USER=${DB_USER}
- POSTGRES_PASSWORD=${DB_PASSWORD}
ports:
- "5431:5432"
volumes:
- dbdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data
nginx:
image: nginx:1.14
ports:
- "443:443"
- "80:80"
volumes:
- ./config/nginx/:/etc/nginx/conf.d
- ./MyAPP/static:/var/www/MyAPP.me/static/
depends_on:
- web
web:
restart: always
build: ./MyAPP
command: bash -c "
python manage.py collectstatic --noinput
&& python manage.py makemigrations
&& python manage.py migrate
&& gunicorn --certfile=/etc/certs/localhost.crt --keyfile=/etc/certs /localhost.key MyAPP.wsgi:application --bind 0.0.0.0:443 --reload"
expose:
- "443"
depends_on:
- db
env_file:
- .env
volumes:
- ./MyAPP:/opt/MyAPP
- ./config/nginx/certs/:/etc/certs
- ./MyAPP/static:/var/www/MyAPP.me/static/
broker:
image: redis:alpine
expose:
- "6379"
celery:
build: ./MyAPP
command: celery -A MyAPP worker -l info
env_file:
- .env
volumes:
- ./MyAPP:/opt/MyAPP
depends_on:
- broker
- db
celery-beat:
build: ./MyAPP
command: celery -A MyAPP beat -l info
env_file:
- .env
volumes:
- ./MyAPP:/opt/MyAPP
depends_on:
- broker
- db
comment-classifier:
image: codait/max-toxic-comment-classifier
volumes:
dbdata:

Answer 1

TL;dr: docker-compose up nginx
There's a distinct difference between docker-compose up and docker-compose run. The first builds, (re)creates, starts, and attaches to containers for a service. The second runs a one-time command against a service. When you do docker-compose run, it starts db and web because nginx depends on them, then it runs a single command on nginx and exits. So you have to use docker-compose up nginx in order to get what you want.