How to update existing images with docker-compose?

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Efe picture Efe · Mar 16, 2018 · Viewed 77.6k times · Source

I have multiple microservices and I am using docker-compose for development deployments. When there are some changes in the microservices code base, I am triggering ci job to re-deploy them. I have below script to do this. But each time I have to build all images from scratch, then run them. After all of this operation, I have anonymous images. So I am using the last script to remove them. What you would suggest making this process more practical? Is there any way to update an existing image without removing it with new changes?

- docker-compose build
- docker-compose down
- docker-compose up -d --force-recreate
- docker rmi $(docker images -f "dangling=true" -q) -f

Additional info: i am using gitlab-ci

Answer

yamenk picture yamenk · Mar 16, 2018

Docker containers are designed to be ephemeral. To update an existing container, you remove the old one and start a new one. Thus the process that you are following is the correct one.

You can simplify the commands to the following ones:

docker-compose up --force-recreate --build -d
docker image prune -f

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