How to rebuild docker container in docker-compose.yml?

Question

There are scope of services which defined in docker-compose.yml. These service have been started. I need to rebuild only one of these and start it without up other services. I run the following commands:

docker-compose up -d # run all services
docker-compose stop nginx # stop only one. but it still running !!!
docker-compose build --no-cache nginx 
docker-compose up -d --no-deps # link nginx to other services

At the end i got old nginx container. By the way docker-compose doesn't kill all running containers !

Answer 1

docker-compose up

$docker-compose up -d --no-deps --build <service_name>

--no-deps - Don't start linked services.

--build - Build images before starting containers.

Answer 2

With docker-compose 1.19

docker-compose up -d --force-recreate --build

From the help menu

Options:
  -d                  Detached mode: Run containers in the background,
                      print new container names. Incompatible with
                      --abort-on-container-exit.
  --force-recreate    Recreate containers even if their configuration
                      and image haven't changed.
  --build             Build images before starting containers.

Answer 3

This should fix your problem:

docker-compose ps # lists all services (id, name)
docker-compose stop <id/name> #this will stop only the selected container
docker-compose rm <id/name> # this will remove the docker container permanently 
docker-compose up # builds/rebuilds all not already built container 

Answer 4

As @HarlemSquirrel posted, it is the best and I think the correct solution.

But, to answer the OP specific problem, it should be something like the following command, as he doesn't want to recreate ALL services in the docker-compose.yml file, but only the nginx one:

docker-compose up -d --force-recreate --no-deps --build nginx

Options description:

Options:
  -d                  Detached mode: Run containers in the background,
                      print new container names. Incompatible with
                      --abort-on-container-exit.
  --force-recreate    Recreate containers even if their configuration
                      and image haven't changed.
  --build             Build images before starting containers.
  --no-deps           Don't start linked services.

Answer 5

The problem is:

$ docker-compose stop nginx

didn't work (you said it is still running). If you are going to rebuild it anyway, you can try killing it:

$ docker-compose kill nginx

If it still doesn't work, try to stop it with docker directly:

$ docker stop nginx

or delete it

$ docker rm -f nginx

If that still doesn't work, check your version of docker, you might want to upgrade.

It might be a bug, you could check if one matches your system/version. Here are a couple, for ex: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/10589

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/12738

As a workaround, you could try to kill the process.

$ ps aux | grep docker 
$ kill 225654 # example process id

Answer 6

Simply use :

docker-compose build [yml_service_name]

Replace [yml_service_name] with your service name in docker-compose.yml file. You can use docker-compose restart to make sure changes are effected. You can use --no-cache to ignore the cache.

Answer 7

Only:

$ docker-compose restart [yml_service_name]