Include directory of docker-compose files - docker

Question

How can I run docker-compose with the base docker-compose.yml and a whole directory of docker-compose files.
Like if I had this directory structure:
parentdir
docker-compose.yml
folder1/
foo.yml
bar.yml
folder2/
foo.yml
other.yml
How can I specify which folder of manifests to run when running compose?

Answer 1

I hope i understood your question well.
You could use the -f flags:
docker-compose -f docker-compose1.yml
Edit
To answer your comment: no you can't docker-compose several files with only one command. You need to specify a file path, not a directory path.
What you could do is create a shell script like:
#!/bin/bash
DOCKERFILE_PATH=$DOCKER_PATH
for dockerfile in $DOCKERFILE_PATH
do
if [[ -f $dockerfile ]]; then
docker-compose -f $dockerfile
fi;
done
By calling it like: DOCKER_PATH=dockerfiles/* ./script.sh which will execute docker-compose -f with every files in DOCKER_PATH.
(docs)

Answer 2

My best option was to have a run.bash file in the base directory of my project.
I then put all my compose files in say compose/ directory, then run it with this command:
docker-compose $(./run.bash) up
run.bash:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
PROJECT_NAME='projectname' # need to set manually since it normally uses current directory as project name
DOCKER_PATH=$PWD/compose/*
MANIFESTS=' '
for dockerfile in $DOCKER_PATH
do
MANIFESTS="${MANIFESTS} -f $dockerfile"
done
MANIFESTS="${MANIFESTS} -p $PROJECT_NAME"
echo $MANIFESTS

Answer 3

You can pass multiple files to docker-compose by using -f for each file. For example if you have N files, you can pass them as follows:
docker-compose -f file1 -f file2 ... -f fileN [up|down|pull|...]
If you have files in sub-directories and you want to pass them to docker-compose recursively, you can use the following:
docker-compose $(for i in $(find . -type f | grep yaml)
do
echo -f $i
done
) [up|down|pull|...]