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For the vast majority of docker images, the documentation only mention a super long and hard to understand "docker run" one liner.

Why nobody is placing an example docker-compose.yml in their documentation? It's so tidy and easy to understand, also much easier to run in the future, just set and forget.

If every image had an yml to just copy, I could get it running in a few seconds, instead I have to decode the line to become an yml

I want to know if it's just me that I'm out of touch and should use "docker run" or it's just that an "one liner" looks much tidier in the docs. Like to say "hey just copy and paste this line to run the container. You don't understand what it does? Who cares"

The worst are the ones that are piping directly from curl to "sudo bash"...

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[–] giacomo 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm sure someone has written a script to convert docker run commands to compose files.

I am usually customizing variables and tend to use compose for anything I am planning on running in "production". I'll use run if it's a temporary or on-demand use container.

It's not really that much effort to write a compose file with the variables from a run command, but you do have to keep an eye on formatting.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

use chatgpt for that... It can also create your ansible task...

[–] giacomo 0 points 1 year ago

Great... For chatgpt...

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I really wish more projects did things like this.

I like just running docker compose and manage containers that way instead of remembering what flags I need to include.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Virgin docker compose. Chad Kubectl apply.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Kubernetes is just docker-compose with extra steps.

/s

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