docker-compose - issue restarting single service - docker-compose

I am using docker-compose for a development project. I have 6 services defined in my docker compose file. I have been using the below script to rebuild the images whenever I make a change.
#!/bin/bash
# file: rebuild.sh
docker-compose down
docker-compose build
docker-compose up
I am looking for a way to reduce the build time as building and restarting all the services seems unnecessary as I am usually only changing one module. I see in the docker-compose docs you can run commands for individual services by specifying the service name after e.g. docker-compose build myservice.
In another terminal window I tried docker-compose build myservice && docker-compose restart myservice while leaving the other ./rebuild.sh command open in the original terminal. In the ./rebuild.sh terminal window I see all the initialization messages being reprinted to the stdout so I know it is restarting that service but the code changes aren't there. What am I doing wrong? I just want to rebuild and restart a single service.

Try:
docker-compose up -d --force-recreate --build myservice
Note that:
-d is for Detached mode,
-force-recreate will recreate containers even is your code did not change,
-build is for build your images before starting containers.
At least the name of your service.
Take a look here.

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Keep containers running after build

We are using the Docker Compose TeamCity build runner and would like the containers to continue running after the build.
I understand that the docker-compose build step itself follows a successful 'up' with a 'down', so I have attempted to bring them back up in a subsequent command line step with simply:
docker-compose up -d
I can see from the log that this is initially successful but when the build process exits, so do the containers. I have also tried:
nohup docker-compose up -d &
The outcome is the same.
How do we keep the containers running when the build has finished?
For info, the environment is both TeamCity and its BuildAgent running on the same Ubuntu box.
I have achieved this by NOT using the Docker Compose build runner. I now just have a single command line build step doing:
docker-compose down
docker-compose up -d
This works, and I feel rather silly ;-)

docker-composer run multiple commands

As other answers have noted, I'm trying to run multiple commands in docker-compose, but my container exits without any errors being logged. I've tried numerous variations of this in my docker-compose file:
command: echo "the_string_for_the_file" > ./datahub-frontend/conf/user.props && datahub-frontend/bin/datahub-frontend
The Dockerfile command is:
CMD ["datahub-frontend/bin/datahub-frontend"]
My Real Goal
Before the application starts, I need to create a file named user.props in a location ./datahub-frontend/conf/ and add some text to that file.
Annoying Constraints
I cannot edit the Dockerfile
I cannot use a volume + some init file to do my bidding
Why? DataHub is an open source project for documenting data. I'm trying to create a very easy way for non-developers to get an instance of DataHub hosted in the cloud. The hosting we're using (AWS Elastic Beanstalk) is cool in that it will accept a docker-compose file to create a web application, but it cannot take other files (e.g. an init script). Even if it could, I want to make it really simple for folks to spin up the container: just a single docker-compose file.
Reference:
The container image is located here:
https://registry.hub.docker.com/layers/datahub-frontend-react/linkedin/datahub-frontend-react/465e2c6/images/sha256-e043edfab9526b6e7c73628fb240ca13b170fabc85ad62d9d29d800400ba9fa5?context=explore
Thanks!
You can use bash -c if your docker image has bash
Something like this should work:
command: bash -c "echo \"the_string_for_the_file\" > ./datahub-frontend/conf/user.props && datahub-frontend/bin/datahub-frontend"

Can I run aws-xray on the same ECS container?

I don't want to have to deploy a whole other ECS service just to enable X-Ray. I'm hoping I can run X-Ray on the same docker container as my app, I would have thought that was the preferred way of running it. I know there might be some data loss if my container dies. But I don't much care about that, I'm trying to stop this proliferation of extra services which serve only extra analytical/logging functions, I already have a logstash container I'm not happy about, my feeling is that apps themselves should be able to do this sort of stuff.
While we have the Dockerhub image of the X-Ray Daemon, you can absolutely run the daemon in the same docker container as your application - that shouldn't be an issue.
Here's the typical setup with the daemon dockerfile and task definition instructions:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/xray/latest/devguide/xray-daemon-ecs.html
I imagine you can simply omit the task definition attributes around the daemon, since it would be running locally beside your application - those wouldn't be used at all.
So I think the proper way to do this is using supervisord, see link for an example of that, but I ended up just making a very simple script:
# start.sh
/usr/bin/xray &
$CATALINA_HOME/bin/catalina.sh run
And then having a Dockerfile:
FROM tomcat:9-jdk11-openjdk
RUN apt-get install -y unzip
RUN curl -o daemon.zip https://s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/aws-xray-assets.us-east-2/xray-daemon/aws-xray-daemon-linux-3.x.zip
RUN unzip daemon.zip && cp xray /usr/bin/xray
# COPY APPLICATION
# TODO
COPY start.sh /usr/bin/start.sh
RUN chmod +x /usr/bin/start.sh
CMD ["/bin/bash", "/usr/bin/start.sh"]
I think I will look at using supervisord next time.

aspnetcore:2.0 based image won't run on AKS nodes?

I have an asp.net core 2.0 application whose docker image runs fine locally, but when that same image is deployed to an AKS cluster, the pods have a status of CrashLoopBackOff and the pod log shows:
Did you mean to run dotnet SDK commands? Please install dotnet SDK from:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=798306&clcid=0x409.
And since you can't ssh to AKS clusters, it's pretty difficult to figure this out?
Dockerfile:
FROM microsoft/aspnetcore:2.0
WORKDIR /app
COPY . .
EXPOSE 80
ENTRYPOINT ["dotnet", "myapi.dll"]
Turned out that our build system wasn't putting the app code into the container as we thought. Since the container wasn't runnable, I didn't know how to inspect its contents until I found this command which is a lifesaver for these kinds of situations:
docker run --rm -it --entrypoint=/bin/bash [image_id]
... which at this point, you can freely inspect/verify the contents of the container.
I just ran into the same issue and it's because I was missing a key piece to the puzzle.
docker-compose -f docker-compose.ci.build.yml run ci-build
VS2017 Docker Tools will create that docker-compose.ci.build.yml file. After that command is run, the publish folder is populated and docker build -t <tag> will build a populated image (without an empty /app folder).

docker-compose up, down, stop start difference

I cant find more information about those.
Should we use docker stop for containers which we started with docker start
Or same for docker-compose up?
What is the difference between stop and down?
In docker-compose help
stop Stop services
down Stop and remove containers and networks (optionally images and volumes as well)
# Stop services only
docker-compose stop
# Stop and remove containers, networks..
docker-compose down
# Down and remove volumes
docker-compose down --volumes
# Down and remove images
docker-compose down --rmi <all|local>
Following are the differences among various docker-compose command options:
docker-compose up - start and restart all the services defined in docker-compose.yml
docker-compose down - command will stop running containers, but it also removes the stopped containers as well as any networks that were created. You can take down one step further and add the -v flag to remove all volumes too. This is great for doing a full blown reset on your environment by running docker-compose down -v.
docker-compose start - command will only restart containers stopped previously
docker-compose stop - command will stop running containers but won’t remove them
Just to answer the other part of the question:
Use docker-compose up to start or restart all the services defined in a docker-compose.yml.
The docker-compose start command is useful only to restart containers that were previously created, but were stopped. It never creates new containers.
The docker-compose run command is for running “one-off” or “adhoc” tasks.
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