docker compose pull

Description

Pull service images

Usage

$ docker compose pull [SERVICE...]

Extended description

Pulls an image associated with a service defined in a compose.yaml file, but does not start containers based on those images.

For example uses of this command, refer to the examples section below.

Options

Name, shorthand Default Description
--ignore-pull-failures Pull what it can and ignores images with pull failures
--include-deps Also pull services declared as dependencies
--no-parallel true DEPRECATED disable parallel pulling.
--parallel true DEPRECATED pull multiple images in parallel.
--quiet , -q Pull without printing progress information

Examples

suppose you have this compose.yaml:

services:
  db:
    image: postgres
  web:
    build: .
    command: bundle exec rails s -p 3000 -b '0.0.0.0'
    volumes:
      - .:/myapp
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
    depends_on:
      - db

If you run docker compose pull ServiceName in the same directory as the compose.yaml file that defines the service, Docker pulls the associated image. For example, to call the postgres image configured as the db service in our example, you would run docker compose pull db.

```console $ docker compose pull db [+] Running 1/15 ⠸ db Pulling 12.4s ⠿ 45b42c59be33 Already exists 0.0s ⠹ 40adec129f1a Downloading 3.374MB/4.178MB 9.3s ⠹ b4c431d00c78 Download complete 9.3s ⠹ 2696974e2815 Download complete 9.3s ⠹ 564b77596399 Downloading 5.622MB/7.965MB 9.3s ⠹ 5044045cf6f2 Downloading 216.7kB/391.1kB 9.3s ⠹ d736e67e6ac3 Waiting 9.3s ⠹ 390c1c9a5ae4 Waiting 9.3s ⠹ c0e62f172284 Waiting 9.3s ⠹ ebcdc659c5bf Waiting 9.3s ⠹ 29be22cb3acc Waiting 9.3s ⠹ f63c47038e66 Waiting 9.3s ⠹ 77a0c198cde5 Waiting 9.3s ⠹ c8752d5b785c Waiting 9.3s ``̀`

Parent command

Command Description
docker compose Docker Compose
Command Description
docker compose build Build or rebuild services
docker compose convert Converts the compose file to platform’s canonical format
docker compose cp Copy files/folders between a service container and the local filesystem
docker compose create Creates containers for a service.
docker compose down Stop and remove containers, networks
docker compose events Receive real time events from containers.
docker compose exec Execute a command in a running container.
docker compose images List images used by the created containers
docker compose kill Force stop service containers.
docker compose logs View output from containers
docker compose ls List running compose projects
docker compose pause Pause services
docker compose port Print the public port for a port binding.
docker compose ps List containers
docker compose pull Pull service images
docker compose push Push service images
docker compose restart Restart containers
docker compose rm Removes stopped service containers
docker compose run Run a one-off command on a service.
docker compose start Start services
docker compose stop Stop services
docker compose top Display the running processes
docker compose unpause Unpause services
docker compose up Create and start containers
docker compose version Show the Docker Compose version information