Tips on Docker Compose

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Installation¶

docker-compose can be installed using the following command on Ubuntu.

:::bash
wajig install docker-compose

And docker -compose can be installed using brew on macOS.

:::bash
brew install docker-compose

Examples¶

version: '3'
services:
  jupyterhub-ds:
    image: "dclong/jupyterhub-ds"
    ports:
      - "8000:8000"
    environment:
      - DOCKER_USER=dclong
      - DOCKER_USER_ID=1000
      - DOCKER_PASSWORD=dclong
      - DOCKER_GROUP_ID=1000
      - DOCKER_ADMIN_USER=dclong
    entrypoint: /scripts/sys/init.sh

Shell Commands¶

Shell commands cannot be used in a Docker-Compose file or a env file directly, which is a big limitation of Docker-Compose.

docker/compose#4081

Nvidia GPU Support¶

Enabling GPU access with Compose

docker/compose#7929

docker/compose#6691

Environment Variables¶

https://docs.docker.com/compose/environment-variables/

NFS¶

https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-swarm-nfs-mount/39007

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45282608/how-to-directly-mount-nfs-share-volume-in-container-using-docker-compose-v3

References¶

https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/

Using Docker-Compose, how to execute multiple commands

https://github.com/docker/compose

https://github.com/jupyter-incutbator/dashboards_setup/tree/master/docker_deploy