DOCKER-COMPOSE-START(1)

📦 version 2.26.1, in debian trixie

💖 DOCKER-COMPOSE-START(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the docker-compose-start era — this is the manual page for starting services, and yes it's short, but it's iconic and we're gonna treat it with the respect it deserves 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

docker-compose-start — start services 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

docker compose start [SERVICE...]

like, that's it. that's the whole summoning spell 🧚

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe: this command starts existing containers for a service. key word being existing — it's not out here creating anything new for you, it's just waking up the containers that are already there, like gently shaking your bestie awake for brunch. no cap 🌈

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -h, --help[=false] — help for start. the little "pls explain" button, lowkey always useful ✨

💜 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 💜

these ones come down from the parent command, so they're family — inherited, fr fr:

  • --dry-run[=false] — execute command in dry run mode. it's giving "let's rehearse but not actually do it" — you get to see what would happen without anything real going down 👀

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

  • docker-compose(1) — the main character, the parent, the whole reason any of this exists ⭐
not me making a manual page for four lines of options and still having the time of my life 💀 but anyway, everything here is real and useful, so use it well bestie 💖

that's the whole page, periodt. this cutie pie was brought to you by the Mar 2025 release of DOCKER-COMPOSE-START(1) — mwah, stay slaying, and may all your containers start on the first try 🍓💜

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