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Even with only one service I still consider Compose to be a necessity. Otherwise you need to manually specify how to mount the volumes, set the environment vari
by Ajedi32 3y ago
Even with only one service I still consider Compose to be a necessity. Otherwise you need to manually specify how to mount the volumes, set the environment variables, and forward ports when you run the container. Only the most trivial containers are easily usable with plain `docker run`.
- wdfx 3y agoThat's a fair point I suppose that docker itself doesn't provide a declarative config for starting containers. But that is also true of a whole bunch of tools which only either provide cli or config but not both
- yownie 3y agoyes all of which results in extremely poor end user experience. I'm glad we're in agreement here.
- aquova 3y agoI agree. Having containers start at boot automatically is a useful enough feature to make compose worth it.