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Give names to your containers

Olivier Berthonneau edited this page Jun 14, 2016 · 1 revision

In development, you sometime need to execute command or inspect in containers. It is possible in docker-compose to give a name to your container with the property container_name. (example https://github.com/dynamiccast/docker-dev/blob/master/docker-compose-dev.yml#L8).

This will allow you to do the following:

docker inspect ubuntu-qemu

Note that in production you will probably want to let docker-compose assign names so you could scale your containers.