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'm newer in docker and I don't understand how to transform this docker-compose.yml :
version: '3'
services:
php:
build: .
volumes:
- "./:/var/www/html:ro"
- "./:/var/log/php"
Into a simple docker command in one line (if possible). I've tried this :
docker build -t mstp2html --mount source=./,target=/var/www/html,ro --mount source=./,target=/var/log/php -f- .
and this :
docker run --name mstp2html --mount source=./,target=/var/www/html,ro --mount source=./,target=/var/log/php ./Dockerfile
But don't work. What I've missing ?
You are mixing two concepts:
build: the stage in which the docker image is created, but it does not have relation on how it will run
run: the stage in which you run a docker container based on an existing docker image. In this stage, you can define options such as volumes.
In order for your example to work, you would need to split that into two stages:
Build the docker image:
docker build -t mstp2html_image .
Run a container from the image and mount the volumes you want to:
docker run --name mstp2html --mount type=bind,source="$(pwd)",target=/var/www/html,ro --mount type=bind,source="$(pwd)",target=/var/log/php mstp2html_image
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.
I'm learning about Docker and I'm at first steps.
I've to 'refresh' postgres image from compose file to initialize db scripts as YOSIFKIT here do through shell (https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/issues/193).
here is my Docker file:
FROM postgres:9.6.7
COPY docker-postgresql-9.6.7/prova.sql /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/
and here is my compose file:
version: '3'
services:
postgresql_rdbms:
restart: always
image: postgres-prova
build:
context: ../
dockerfile: docker-postgresql-9.6.7/Dockerfile
command: bash -c "docker run -it --rm postgres-prova ls -ln /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d && docker run -it --rm postgres-prova && postgres"
environment:
PG_PASSWORD: postgres
ports:
- "5432:5432"
volumes:
- /srv/docker/postgresql:/var/lib/postgresql
HOW can I insert a command in a compose-file to do "docker run -it --rm imageToReload" ???
Because I've seen that "command:" in compose file works inside the container, but I want operate ON the container, on a upper level (=manage the container from the compose file, after the container creation)
Thank you very much
From what I understand you want docker-compose to delete/remove the container after every run so that the build is run each time and a fresh prova.sql file can be copied into the image each time the service is brought up. The --force-recreate flag is probably what you need.
The command directive within the yaml file provides the command that is run inside the container.
Is there any way posible to exec command from inside one docker container in the linked docker container?
I don't want to exec command from the host.
As long as you have access to something like the docker socket within your container, you can run any command inside any docker container, doesn't matter whether or not it is linked. For example:
# run a container and link it to `other`
docker run --rm -it -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
--link other:other myimage bash -l
bash$ docker exec --it other echo hello
This works even if the link was not specified.
With docker-compose:
version: '2.1'
services:
site:
image: ubuntu
container_name: test-site
command: sleep 999999
dkr:
image: docker
privileged: true
working_dir: "/dkr"
volumes:
- ".:/dkr"
- "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock"
command: docker ps -a
Then try:
docker-compose up -d site
docker-compose up dkr
result:
Attaching to tmp_dkr_1
dkr_1 | CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
dkr_1 | 25e382142b2e docker "docker-entrypoint..." Less than a second ago Up Less than a second tmp_dkr_1
Example Project
https://github.com/reduardo7/docker-container-access
As "Abdullah Jibaly" said you can do that but there is some security issues you have to consider, also there is sdk docker to use, and for python applications can use Docker SDK for Python