Docker Compose does not allow to use local images

Question

The following command fails, trying to pull image from the Docker Hub:

$ docker-compose up -d
Pulling web-server (web-server:staging)...
ERROR: repository we         


        

Answer 1

You might need to change your image tag to have two parts separated by a slash /. So instead of

chat-server:staging

do something like:

victor-dombrovsky/chat-server:staging

I think there's some logic behind Docker tags and "one part" tags are interpreted as official images coming from DockerHub.

Answer 2

Version >1.23 (2019 and newer)

Easiest way is to change image to build: and reference the Dockerfile in the relative directory, as shown below:

version: '3.0'
services:
  custom_1:
    build:
      context: ./my_dir
      dockerfile: Dockerfile

This allows docker-compose to manage the entire build and image orchestration in a single command.

# Rebuild all images
docker-compose build
# Run system
docker-compose up

Answer 3

For me putting "build: ." did the trick. My working docker compose file looks like this,

version: '3.0'
services:
  terraform:
    build: .
    image: tf:staging
    env_file: .env
    working_dir: /opt
    volumes:
      - ~/.aws:/.aws