Disable autostart of docker-compose project

Question

I have a docker-compose project using Docker for Mac that autostarts when I boot the computer.

I usually start the project with docker-compose up -d, but ev

Answer 1

Beside setting restart: unless-stopped, remove existing containers and recreate them.

docker-compose down
docker-compose up -d

Now, it would work as expected:

docker-compose stop
sudo service docker restart
docker-compose ps
# should NOT HAVE containers running

docker-compose up -d
sudo service docker restart
docker-compose ps
# should HAVE containers running

Answer 2

restart: no is default mode. There is line inside your docker-compose file with restart: no or restart: unless-stopped. It also means that when you boot your system, it (re)starts container(s) again as long as docker daemon. Details
You need to change restart to no or on-failure, example:

version: '2.1'
services:
    backend:
        restart: on-failure
        build:
            args:
                USER_ID: ${USER_ID}
            context: codebase/namp-backend
            dockerfile: Dockerfile.dev
        ports:
          - "5001:5001"
          - "5851:5851"
        volumes:
          - ./codebase/namp-backend:/codebase
        environment:

Also docker-compose down for most cases, gives you the same result - do not start containers while (docker) system startup, except: containers will be deleted after this, not stopped.

Answer 3

Try with docker-compose down instead of docker-compose stop

down

Stops containers and removes containers, networks, volumes, and images created by up. Networks and volumes defined as external are never removed.

stop

Stops running containers without removing them. They can be started again with docker-compose start.

Answer 4

Today I had the same issue that all containers are started when I boot my dev laptop, as restart: always was set in the .yml files.

As I don't want to touch the .yml files, I just found out (thx Bobby) how to alter this setting by:

docker update --restart=no <MY-CONTAINER-ID>