Docker-Compose Restart Policy

Question

I looked thru the docs for docker-compose and I see that Version 3 has a deploy restart policy but it\'s only for swarm. I tried setting restart_policy on my service but got thi

Answer 1

Version 2 supports restart policies, using the restart keyword, and should work fine for you if you don't need Swarm (which you said you don't need/want).

version: '2'
services:
  web:
    image: apache
    restart: always

https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/compose-file-v2/#restart

Compose format version 3 has a parameter called restart_policy, but so far as I can tell from documentation it is only valid as part of deploy, which is only used when deploying to a Swarm. So version 3 is probably not useful in your case.