Auto remove container with docker-compose.yml

Question

docker-compose run has a flag --rm that auto removes the container after run. I am wondering if theres an equivalent config with docker-compose.yml for a specific service, as one of which services i got in yml is a one off build process which should just output the compile file and disappear itself.

Answer 1

Simply run docker-compose up && docker-compose rm -fsv ?

? https://docs.docker.com/compose/reference/rm

Answer 2

My solution to this was to create a little bash script that automatically removes containers afterwards.

If you're on macOS, you can put this script in usr/local/bin. Assuming it's named dco, you can then run chmod +x usr/local/bin/dco to make it executable. On Windows, I have no idea how to get this working, but on Linux it should be similar.

#! /bin/bash

# check for -d, --detached
DETACHED=false
for (( i=1; i <= "$#"; i++ )); do
  ARG="${!i}"
  case "$ARG" in
    -d|--detach)
      DETACHED=true
      break
      ;;
  esac
done

if [[ $1 == "run" ]] && [[ $DETACHED == false ]]; then
    docker-compose run --rm "${@:2}"
elif [[ $1 == "up" ]] && [[ $DETACHED == false ]]; then
    docker-compose up "${@:2}"; docker-compose down
else
    docker-compose "${@:1}"
fi

Edit: Updated the script so that detached mode will work normally, added break to the loop suggested by artu-hnrq

Answer 3

It's been quite some time since this question was posted, but I thought it would be informative to share something that worked for my case, in 2022 :) But keep in mind that this solution still does not remove old containers, as the original author intended to achieve.

docker-compose up --force-recreate -V

In my case, I have a small Redis cluster where I want the data to be completely erased after I stop the servers. Only using --force-recreate didn't do the trick, because the anonymous volume is still reused. That's where -V comes in.

Answer 4

I'm not sure I understand, docker-compose run --user is an option, and the docker-compose.yml supports the user key (http://docs.docker.com/compose/yml/#working95dir-entrypoint-user-hostname-domainname-mem95limit-privileged-restart-stdin95open-tty-cpu95shares).