Automation Task: Automating Docker Compose Deployments

Description

Use scripts or CI pipelines to deploy services via docker-compose reproducibly.

Manual Script

#!/bin/bash
docker compose pull
docker compose down
docker compose up -d --remove-orphans

CI/CD Example (GitLab)

deploy:
  stage: deploy
  script:
    - docker compose -f docker-compose.yml pull
    - docker compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d --remove-orphans

Best Practices

• Use .env files for variables
• Separate staging and production configs
• Validate config:

  docker compose config
  

Tools & Commands

• docker compose, GitLab CI/CD, Bash scripting