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Lab #10: stop Command

The docker-compose stop command help us to stop containers in service.

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 the container service

Create a docker-compose.yml file​

version: '3.1'
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 the container service​

$ docker-compose stop
Stopping webserver ... done
Stopping Mysqldb   ... done

Listout the services​

$ docker-compose ps --services
webserver
dbserver

Stoping a single service​

$ docker-compose stop webserver
Stopping webserver ... done

Contributor​

Savio Mathew

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