Is there any way to start an interactive shell in a container using Docker Compose only? I've tried something like this, in my docker-compose.yml:
myapp:
image: alpine:latest
entrypoint: /bin/sh
When I start this container using docker-compose up it's exited immediately. Are there any flags I can add to the entrypoint command, or as an additional option to myapp, to start an interactive shell?
I know there are native docker command options to achieve this, just curious if it's possible using only Docker Compose, too.
You need to include the following lines in your docker-compose.yml:
version: "3"
services:
app:
image: app:1.2.3
stdin_open: true # docker run -i
tty: true # docker run -t
The first corresponds to -i in docker run and the second to -t.
The canonical way to get an interactive shell with docker-compose is to use:
docker-compose run --rm myapp
(With the service name myapp taken from your example. More general: it must be an existing service name in your docker-compose file, myapp is not just a command of your choice. Example: bash instead of myapp would not work here.)
You can set stdin_open: true, tty: true, however that won't actually give you a proper shell with up, because logs are being streamed from all the containers.
You can also use
docker exec -ti <container name> /bin/bash
to get a shell on a running container.
The official getting started example (https://docs.docker.com/compose/gettingstarted/) uses the following docker-compose.yml:
version: "3.9"
services:
web:
build: .
ports:
- "8000:5000"
redis:
image: "redis:alpine"
After you start this with docker-compose up, you can shell into either your redis container or your web container with:
docker-compose exec redis sh
docker-compose exec web sh
docker-compose run myapp sh should do the deal.
There is some confusion with up/run, but docker-compose run docs have great explanation: https://docs.docker.com/compose/reference/run
If anyone from the future also wanders up here:
docker-compose exec service_name sh
or
docker-compose exec service_name bash
or you can run single lines like
docker-compose exec service_name php -v
That is after you already have your containers up and running.
The service_name is defined in your docker-compose.yml file
Using docker-compose, I found the easiest way to do this is to do a docker ps -a (after starting my containers with docker-compose up) and get the ID of the container I want to have an interactive shell in (let's call it xyz123).
Then it's a simple matter to execute
docker exec -ti xyz123 /bin/bash
and voila, an interactive shell.
This question is very interesting for me because I have problems, when I run container after execution finishes immediately exit and I fixed with -it:
docker run -it -p 3000:3000 -v /app/node_modules -v $(pwd):/app <your_container_id>
And when I must automate it with docker compose:
version: '3'
services:
frontend:
stdin_open: true
tty: true
build:
context: .
dockerfile: Dockerfile.dev
ports:
- "3000:3000"
volumes:
- /app/node_modules
- .:/app
This makes the trick: stdin_open: true, tty: true
This is a project generated with create-react-app
Dockerfile.dev it looks this that:
FROM node:alpine
WORKDIR '/app'
COPY package.json .
RUN npm install
COPY . .
CMD ["npm", "run", "start"]
Hope this example will help other to run a frontend(react in example) into docker container.
I prefer
docker-compose exec my_container_name bash
If the yml is called docker-compose.yml it can be launched with a simple $ docker-compose up. The corresponding attachment of a terminal can be simply (consider that the yml has specified a service called myservice):
$ docker-compose exec myservice sh
However, if you are using a different yml file name, such as docker-compose-mycompose.yml, it should be launched using $ docker-compose -f docker-compose-mycompose.yml up. To attach an interactive terminal you have to specify the yml file too, just like:
$ docker-compose -f docker-compose-mycompose.yml exec myservice sh
A addition to this old question, as I only had the case last time. The difference between sh and bash. So it can happen that for some bash doesn't work and only sh does.
So you can:
docker-compose exec CONTAINER_NAME sh
and in most cases: docker-compose exec CONTAINER_NAME bash
use.
If you have time. The difference between sh and bash is well explained here:
https://www.baeldung.com/linux/sh-vs-bash
You can do docker-compose exec SERVICE_NAME sh on the command line. The SERVICE_NAME is defined in your docker-compose.yml. For example,
services:
zookeeper:
image: wurstmeister/zookeeper
ports:
- "2181:2181"
The SERVICE_NAME would be "zookeeper".
According to documentation -> https://docs.docker.com/compose/reference/run/
You can use this docker-compose run --rm app bash
[app] is the name of your service in docker-compose.yml
I have a docker-compose.yml file that starts two services: amazon/dynamodb-local on 8000 port and django-service. django-service runs tests that are dependent on dynamodb-local.
Here is working docker-compose.yml:
version: '3.8'
services:
dynamodb-local:
image: "amazon/dynamodb-local:latest"
container_name: dynamodb-local
ports:
- "8000:8000"
django-service:
depends_on:
- dynamodb-local
image: django-service
build:
dockerfile: Dockerfile
context: .
env_file:
- envs/tests.env
volumes:
- ./:/app
command: sh -c 'cd /app && pytest tests/integration/ -vv'
Now I need to run this without docker-compose, only using docker itself. I try to do following:
docker network create -d bridge net // create a network for dynamodb-local and django-service
docker run --network=net --rm -p 8000:8000 -d amazon/dynamodb-local:latest // run cont. att. to network
docker run --network=net --rm --env-file ./envs/tests.env -v `pwd`:/app django-service /bin/sh -c 'env && cd /app && pytest tests/integration -vv'
I can see that both services start, but I can't connect to the dynamo-db.
Where is the problem? Any comment or help is appreciated!
Through the docker-compose.yml, the amazon/dynamodb-local container has a name defined (container_name: dynamodb-local, If we do not set this property, docker-compose will use the service's name as container name). This enables other containers in the same network to address the container through its name.
In the docker-run command, we do not set an explicit container name. We can set an explicit container name by executing docker run ... --name dynamodb-local .... More details can be found in the corresponding docker run documentation.
I have a simple command to run a java file (power architect) application with graphical interface in a docker container.
sudo docker run --rm --net=host --env="DISPLAY" --name cont_sql_power_architect -it -v $HOME/Desktop/FRM_project/volumes/sql_power_architect:/project img_sql_power_architect java -jar project/architect-1.0.8/architect.jar &
I try to reproduce it in docker-compose
services:
sql_power_architect:
build:
context: ./dockerfiles/
dockerfile: dockerfile_sql_power_architect
image: img_sql_power_architect
container_name: cont_sql_power_architect
environment:
- DISPLAY
network_mode: "host"
stdin_open: true
tty: true
volumes:
- ./volumes/sql_power_architect:/project
command:
- java -jar project/architect-1.0.8/architect.jar &
When I launch the docker-compose up -d, the container is launched but instantaneously stopped. The commands seems to be the same than the docker run. I don't see what I am missing.
Any Idea ?
PS to be able to run with a docker run, I have to execute before the command xhost +"local:docker#" each time I open a new console. But I still execute it before the docker-compose command.
I try to run docker-compose without installation, so using docker:compose repository (with docker run).
So I tried this way :
docker run -ti --rm -v $PWD:/XXX docker/compose:1.24.1 up -d
The problem is that I don't know the container dir name of docker/compose (here XXX) to mount my current folder as volume.
Any ideas...?
Thanks !
You can bind mount your local docker-compose.yaml to any place just remember to tell docker-compose use -f, like next:
docker run -ti --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v ${PWD}:/code docker/compose:1.24.1 -f /code/docker-compose.yaml up -d
Meanwhile, don't forget to add docker.sock of your host machine bind mount to the container.
That XXX folder can be anything inside the container. Basically in -v option of docker run. Its -v [host-directory]:[container-directory].
If you are trying to run a docker-compose up inside the container, then follow these steps:
Create a directory on host mkdir /root/test
Create docker-compose.yaml file with following contents:
version: '2'
services:
web:
build: .
ports:
- "5000:5000"
volumes:
- .:/code
redis:
image: redis
Run docker run command to run docker-compose inside the container.
docker run -itd -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v /root/test/:/var/tmp/ docker/compose:1.24.1 -f /var/tmp/docker-compose.yaml up -d
NOTE: Here /var/tmp directory inside the container will contain docker-compose.yaml file so I have used -f option to specify complete path of the yaml file.
Hope this helps.
There is a webservice running in a Docker container.
This webservice relies on big json files to boot.
I create a Docker volume to store the json files with docker volume create my-api-files.
Here is the docker-compose file for the webservice:
version: '3'
services:
my-api:
image: node:alpine
expose:
- ${NODE_PORT}
volumes:
- ./:/api
- my-api-files:/files
working_dir: /api
command: npm run start
volumes:
my-api-files:
external: true
Now, how can I copy the json files to the my-api-files docker volume before to start the the webservice with docker-compose up?
You could run a temporary container with that volume and a bind mount to your host files and run a copy from there:
docker run --rm -it -v my-api-files:/temporary -v $PWD/jsonFileLocation:/big-data alpine cp /big-data/*.json /temporary
docker run --rm -it -v my-api-files:/test alpine ls /test
You should see your JSON files in there.
EDIT: Of course, replace $PWD/jsonFileLocation with your JSON file location and your operating system's syntax.