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Lab #22: Down Command

The docker-compose down command helps to Stop and remove containers, networks, images, and volumes.

Pre-requisite:

Tested Infrastructure

Platform Number of Instance Reading Time
Play with Docker 1 5 min

Pre-requisite

  • Create an account with DockerHub
  • Open PWD Platform on your browser
  • Click on Add New Instance on the left side of the screen to bring up Alpine OS instance on the right side

Assignment

  • Create a docker-compose.yml file
  • Bringup the containers
  • Stop and remove containers, networks

Create a docker-compose.yml file

version: '3.7'
services:
#Nginx Service
webserver:
image: nginx:alpine
container_name: Nginx
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- "80:80"
- "443:443"
dbserver:
image: mysql:5.7
container_name: Mysqldb
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- "3306:3306"
environment:
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: Pa$$w0rd
MYSQL_USER: test
MYSQL_PASSWORD: Pa$$w0rd123
MYSQL_DATABASE: test
volumes:
- db_data:/var/lib/mysql
volumes:
db_data:

Bringup the containers

$ docker-compose up -d

Checking container status

$ docker-compose ps
Name Command State Ports
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mysqldb docker-entrypoint.sh mysqld Up 0.0.0.0:3306->3306/tcp, 33060/tcp
Nginx nginx -g daemon off; Up 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp, 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp

Stop and remove containers, networks

$ docker-compose down
Stopping Mysqldb ... done
Stopping Nginx ... done
Removing Mysqldb ... done
Removing Nginx ... done
Removing network root_default

Down and remove images

$ docker-compose down --rmi <all|local>

'all': Remove all images used by any service.
'local': Remove only images that don't have a custom tag set by the image field.

Down and remove volumes

$ docker-compose down --volumes

Stop and remove containers, networks + Remove volumes,images

$ docker-compose down --volume --rmi all
Stopping Mysqldb ... done
Stopping Nginx ... done
Removing Mysqldb ... done
Removing Nginx ... done
Removing network root_default
Removing volume root_db_data
Removing image nginx:alpine
Removing image mysql:5.7

Contributor

Savio Mathew