Docker-Compose Restart Policy

Question

I looked thru the docs for docker-compose and I see that Version 3 has a deploy restart policy but it\'s only for swarm. I tried setting restart_policy on my service but got thi

Answer 1

Even if you're NOT in swarm mode, there is an option called --compatibility which will work with restart_policy, this will attempt to restart even if you're not deploying. The only glitch, is the sub-keys of 'delay' and 'window' will be ignored. Here is an example:

version: '3.7'
services:
  build:
    context: .
    dockerfile: Dockerfile
  container_name: example
  deploy:
    restart_policy:
      condition: on-failure
      max-attempts: 3

run this command:

docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml --compatability up