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title: Docker compose
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## Docker compose
Docker-Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. With Compose, you use a YAML file to configure your application’ s services.
The steps to use docker-compose are
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1)create a Dockerfile which defines the image and can be producible everywhere.
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```
```
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2)create a docker-compose yml file to run the services
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```
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3)use docker-compose up to start the sevices specified in docker-compose.yml file
```
#### Basic commands in docker-compose
* Command to run docker-containers
```
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up
```
* Command to run containers in detached mode
```
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d
```
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* command to run containers after building the images again (note: first time we run docker containers build will happen automatically)
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```
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml --build -d
```
* Command to stop containers when we run in detached mode
```
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml down
```
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* Command to remove service containers
```
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml rm
```
* Command to pull Images for all service containers from repository (by default from Docker Hub)
```
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml pull
```
* Command to view logs of all service contaienrs (add -f to follow logs)
```
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml logs
```
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#### More Information:
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- [More information on Docker-compose ](https://docs.docker.com/compose/ )
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