docker/compose on Hacker News

…:). Compose support is flakey at times (it's essentially a wrapper around the open source binary https://github.com/docker/compose )

comment by cdrage · 2026-02-25 · in Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build

…missing features? [1] https://github.com/containers/podman-compose [2] https://compose-spec.io/ [3] https://github.com/docker/compose [4] https://github.com/docker/compose/tree/v1 [5] https://www.devopsroles.com/how-to-use-docker-compose-wi…

comment by goku12 · 2025-09-05 · in I ditched Docker for Podman

…the health check manually and that would lead to the rest of the setup running to completion. [1] https://github.com/docker/compose [2] https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-serv... [3]…

comment by goku12 · 2025-03-24 · in Quadlet: Running Podman containers under systemd

…to do this years ago and I’d really like to retire it. Compose ignores “depends_on” for builds: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/6332#issuecomment-4...

comment by miiiiiike · 2025-02-08 · in Docker Bake is now generally available

…news! On the other: > The Docker compose CLI plugin has no stable output format (see for example https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/10872 ), and for the main operations also no machine friendly output format. The module tries to…

comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2024-11-15 · in Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS...) to CNCF

…me, as both are pointing to the exact same GitHub repository[0]. Can you name the differences? [0]: https://github.com/docker/compose

comment by whilenot-dev · 2024-11-14 · in Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS...) to CNCF

…[1]: https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/2527 [2]: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/37338 [3]: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/8561#issuecomment-1... [4]: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/34384

comment by msiemens · 2024-07-20 · in Never Update Anything

…point across? https://github.com/docker/docs?tab=readme-ov-file or this "cartoon" of an octopus? https://github.com/docker/compose This seems to really just be "oldman-yelling-at-clouds-syndrome" I for one welcome anime girls in readmes…

comment by MeImCounting · 2024-05-20 · in Llama3 implemented from scratch

…python script. [1] To install it's simply: $ mkdir -p ~/.docker/cli-plugins $ curl -SL https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v2.23.0/... -o ~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose 1. https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/linux

comment by drzaiusx11 · 2023-11-04 · in Podman Desktop v1.5 with Compose onboarding and enhanced Kubernetes pod data

…like Kompose[3], that understand the Compose format, and can use it to deploy in Kubernetes. 1: https://github.com/docker/compose 2: https://compose-spec.io/ 3: https://kompose.io/

comment by tecleandor · 2023-07-14 · in Podman Desktop 1.2 Released: Compose and Kubernetes Support

Have a look at the contributors graph, it's pretty self-explanatory: https://github.com/docker/compose/graphs/contributors Out of the 100 people listed, I counted maybe 8 tops who committed at least a few times in 2022?

comment by vntok · 2023-01-04 · in Ask HN: A Better Docker Compose?

…but pretty sure it's about as dead as docker itself. I.e. not dead. There was commits 8hrs ago -- https://github.com/docker/compose/ . Not sure who did that if not "the community".

comment by theteapot · 2023-01-04 · in Ask HN: A Better Docker Compose?

I ran into this issue[0] when trying to use docker-compose locally, connecting to a Podman VM. [0]: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/9448

comment by sgarland · 2022-11-10 · in Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop

Why not fork docker-compose v1? It's Python! https://github.com/docker/compose/tree/1.29.2/compose You could keep the YAML format and extend it, and still write compose files as pure Python.

comment by 0xbadcafebee · 2022-03-02 · in Show HN: Miniboss, versatile local container management with Python

…tool. Compose (the file format) 3.x was introduced with Compose (the tool) version 1.10 in 2017: https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/tag/1.10.0

comment by Macha · 2022-01-28 · in Docker for Mac Without Docker Desktop

…issue on the crypto package about it was fairly tense. Iirc, the dependency was rolled back. [1] https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/8105#issuecomment-7...

comment by bredren · 2021-09-18 · in Alpine Linux: Proposal to move Rust to main

…This feature gets asked for quite often. Here are two issues on GitHub I was quickly able to find: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/6470 https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/6997

comment by krono · 2021-05-31 · in You Don't Need to Rebuild Your Development Docker Image on Every Code Change

…[1] https://windsock.io/explaining-docker-image-ids/#contentaddr... [2] https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/5523

comment by mleonhard · 2021-03-16 · in Docker Raises $23M

…with compose trying to push people to swarm, which no longer seems to be the case after this merge. https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/tag/1.27.0

comment by nikisweeting · 2020-12-07 · in Docker's Second Death

As of the September release of Compose version 1.27.0 https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/tag/1.27.0 the config format versions 2 and 3 are merged and "depends_on" – and "extends"! – are back.

comment by nicwolff · 2020-12-07 · in Docker's Second Death

…automated all the setup with ansible successfully. [1] https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker [2] https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/6691

comment by ggregoire · 2020-06-01 · in Overview of Python dependency management tools

…how to use them. You should use v2 for local development if you're not using stack/swarm locally: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/4305#issuecomment-3...

comment by stevebmark · 2020-04-13 · in The Docker Compose Specification

Maybe they'll address https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/745 now...

comment by nixpulvis · 2020-04-08 · in The Docker Compose Specification

…but if you need several layers for production environment, they won't be squashed. See here: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/4235#issuecomment-3...

comment by pm7 · 2019-10-21 · in Show HN: Nginx Image with HTTP/3 (QUIC), TLS1.3 with 0-RTT, Brotli

…and has encoding issues on Windows that have no real workarounds other than upgrading to Python3: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/2775

comment by fro0116 · 2017-11-15 · in Numpy: Plan for dropping Python 2.7 support

Somewhat off topic, but docker-compose finally works on the old iMac I use at work: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/271

comment by SloopJon · 2016-04-14 · in Docker 1.11: The first OCI-compliant runtime, built on containerd

Docker Compose depends on a bundled copy of OpenSSL that has been insecure since June: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/1601

comment by davexunit · 2015-11-18 · in Nanobox: Local development done right

…that makes distributed system construction easier. I would also refer people to the discussion in https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/1899#issuecomment-1... as well as https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/8859 on why we feel that the…

comment by brendandburns · 2015-11-04 · in Docker Clustering Tools Compared: Kubernetes vs. Docker Swarm

It's Python. https://github.com/docker/compose Is this the repository or is there another one?

comment by ihsw · 2015-10-08 · in EC2 Container Service Update – Container Registry, ECS CLI, AZ-Aware Scheduling

…this is not mentioned in the changelog :) Regarding the `docker-compose` issue, it's described here https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/1723 . Aanand Prasad has a better PR in https://github.com/docker/compose/pull/1754 (merged).

comment by anh79 · 2015-08-13 · in Docker 1.8 released

…digression: docker-compose doesn't work on my work Mac, and no one seems to know how to fix it: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/271 Haven't yet managed to rebuild it locally as suggested. Edit: some observations after installing…

comment by SloopJon · 2015-08-12 · in Docker 1.8 released

…have known exploits in them. They also bundle insecure versions of libraries with their software: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/1601

comment by davexunit · 2015-07-07 · in Ask HN: What is the actual purpose of Docker?

…of this issue being out there for at least a few days. Docker's currently "open" issue on github: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/1601 Other references: https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2015-July...…

comment by shawnee_ · 2015-07-07 · in Ask HN: What is the actual purpose of Docker?

…the project for your environment and everything is pretty much self contained in the dockerfile ( https://github.com/docker/compose/blob/master/Dockerfile ). You don't have to clog up your host computer with deps and you get an executable…

comment by jgrowl · 2015-06-30 · in Ask HN: Why use Docker and what are the business cases for using it?

Oh cool, another change to fig/docker-compose that doesn't include the most requested feature: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/495 As the person who wrote the PR for its solution and have been waiting for it to get merged for…

comment by languagehacker · 2015-04-16 · in Docker 1.6: Engine and Orchestration Updates, Registry 2.0, and Windows Client

I've got a bone to pick with the new Docker Compose. Take a look at this issue: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/495 Back in January I went through the effort of outlining a solution that was approved by the maintainers before…

comment by languagehacker · 2015-04-16 · in Docker 1.6: Engine and Orchestration Updates, Registry 2.0, and Windows Client

…[3] http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/ [4] http://caiusproject.com/ [5] https://github.com/docker/compose

comment by michaelsbradley · 2015-02-28 · in Topics in Tcl Programming