Can docker compose skip build if the image is present?

Question

Is it possible to run docker-compose up in such a way that it will only build if the image isn\'t present in the repository?

I\'m working on a test sce

Answer 1

i am using docker-compose v2.1

when we run docker compose up it check image is exist or not. if not exist then only it build that image otherwise it will skip that part

docker-compose

version: '2.1'

services:
  devimage:
    image: nodedockertest
    build: .
    environment:
      NODE_ENV: development
    ports:
      - 8000:8000

Answer 2

You can use docker-compose pull to fetch images. Then if they are present already, Compose will not try to build them again.

To be really sure to avoid rebuilds, you can use --no-build.

docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d --no-build

Your real problem is that you are specifying a build context, but then trying to use docker-compose without that build context being present.

When docker-compose runs, even if it has no plan to do a build, it will verify the build context at least exists. If it doesn't, then it will fail.

All you need to do to satisfy this requirement is create an empty directory for any missing build context. That should make docker-compose happy enough to run.

mkdir -p local-repo1 local-repo2