Nicolas De Loof e0d7e8cfe8 fix(up): stop late starters racing the on-exit abort
TestUpExitCodeFromContainerKilled hung for its full 2-minute budget on
CI, and its event transcript shows why: 'Aborting on container exit'
sweeps the application while the start phase — which runs on a
deliberately uncancelable context for SIGTERM management — was still
starting services; test-1 came up AFTER its stop and stayed up, so the
monitor never drained and up never returned.

The abort listener now watches the events stream past its trigger: any
container started after the sweep is a late starter from that race, and
gets stopped as it appears. Event-driven, so there is no listing window
to miss; idempotent stops make duplicates harmless. The exit code
semantics are preserved: the late starter's own 143 flows through
captureExitCodeFrom exactly as when the sweep wins the race.
TestUpExitCodeFrom* pass 5/5 locally.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas De Loof <[email protected]>
2026-09-22 14:45:23 +02:00
2026-09-02 18:44:40 +02:00
2026-09-02 18:44:40 +02:00
2020-08-17 10:20:49 +02:00
2026-07-16 11:39:14 +02:00

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Docker Compose

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Docker Compose is a tool for running multi-container applications on Docker defined using the Compose file format. A Compose file is used to define how one or more containers that make up your application are configured. Once you have a Compose file, you can create and start your application with a single command: docker compose up.

Note

: About Docker Swarm Docker Swarm used to rely on the legacy compose file format but did not adopt the compose specification so is missing some of the recent enhancements in the compose syntax. After acquisition by Mirantis swarm isn't maintained by Docker Inc, and as such some Docker Compose features aren't accessible to swarm users.

Where to get Docker Compose

Windows and macOS

Docker Compose is included in Docker Desktop for Windows and macOS.

Linux

You can download Docker Compose binaries from the release page on this repository.

Rename the relevant binary for your OS to docker-compose and copy it to $HOME/.docker/cli-plugins

Or copy it into one of these folders to install it system-wide:

  • /usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins OR /usr/local/libexec/docker/cli-plugins
  • /usr/lib/docker/cli-plugins OR /usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins

(might require making the downloaded file executable with chmod +x)

Quick Start

Using Docker Compose is a three-step process:

  1. Define your app's environment with a Dockerfile so it can be reproduced anywhere.
  2. Define the services that make up your app in compose.yaml so they can be run together in an isolated environment.
  3. Lastly, run docker compose up and Compose will start and run your entire app.

A Compose file looks like this:

services:
  web:
    build: .
    ports:
      - "5000:5000"
    volumes:
      - .:/code
  redis:
    image: redis

Contributing

Want to help develop Docker Compose? Check out our contributing documentation.

If you find an issue, please report it on the issue tracker.

Legacy

The Python version of Compose is available under the v1 branch.

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