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Zach Smith
Zach Smith

Reputation: 8961

Does docker-compose configuration cover 100% of the docker CLI?

Trying to figure out the difference between docker and docker-compose, it looks like the docker-compose CLI effectively provides a means of running the docker CLI indirectly via configuration (What is the difference between docker and docker-compose).

Is there anything that you can do with the docker CLI that COULDN'T be specified in docker-compose.yml?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 74

Answers (1)

bellackn
bellackn

Reputation: 2184

The docker CLI offers more options to you (e.g. docker history to inspect an image's history, just to name one) than the docker-compose.yml. But the latter is meant for a very different purpose, namely making the deployment of multi-container applications easier.

So, to my knowledge, if we just look at the aspects of starting and configuring containers, you can do everything with docker-compose that "plain" docker can do, but in a much more comfortable way.

Upvotes: 2

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