container-compose up

Start containers with compose.

Synopsis

terminal

container-compose up [global-options] [options] [services...]

Options

Flag	Shorthand	Type	Default	Description
--detach	-d	flag		Detaches from container logs. Note: If you do NOT detach, killing this process will NOT kill the container. To kill the container, run container-compose down
--file	-f	path		The path to your Docker Compose file
--build	-b	flag		Rebuild images before starting containers
--no-cache		flag		Do not use cache
--profile		string		Specify a profile to enable. Can be specified multiple times.

Arguments

Argument	Description
services	Specify the services to start

Examples

Start all services in the background

Run all services defined in the compose file and detach from logs.

terminal

container-compose up -d

Start specific services

Only start the web and db services.

terminal

container-compose up web db

Use a custom compose file

Specify a different compose file to use.

terminal

container-compose -f stack.yaml up

Filter by profile

Only start services that belong to the dev profile.

terminal

container-compose up --profile dev

Notes / Anti-Patterns

• Killing the foreground process does NOT stop containers; use down to stop and remove them.

See also

• down
• stop
• start