Docker Composer
A library to interact with docker-compose V2 from a python Program.
All commands and parameters are exposed as python classes and attributes
to allow for full auto-completion of its parameters with IDEs
that support it.
Runtime footprint: This library is stdlib-only (zero third-party runtime dependencies).
Install
pip install docker-composer
Usage
The main class is docker_composer.DockerCompose. Its parameters are
all options from docker-compose.
Each docker-compose command has a corresponding function, e.g.
DockerCompose.run or DockerCompose.scale. Their arguments again mirror
the options of the corresponding command.
The resulting object has a call function.
It takes arbitrary strings as input, as well as all keyword arguments from
subprocess.run, and returns a subprocess.CompletedProcess
from docker_composer import DockerCompose
base = DockerCompose(file="docker-compose.yml", verbose=True)
base.run(detach=True, workdir="/tmp").call("app")
base.run(workdir="/tmp").call("app", "/bin/bash", "-l")
# /tmp $ ls /.dockerenv
# /.dockerenv
# /tmp $ exit
process = base.ps(all=True).call(capture_output=True)
print(process.stdout.encode("UTF-8"))
# Name Command State Ports
# -------------------------------------------------------------------
# myapp_app_70fd8b786b76 myapp --start-server Exit 0
# myapp_app_6ac3db4e1b55 myapp --client Exit 0
Develop
Development Setup
When developing, the _utils module is available for generating the docker_composer
module from the docker composeCLI help output.
This is not required for normal package usage.
uv sync --group dev
uv run poe generate
Coding Standards
| Type | Package | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Linter | ruff |
Also for auto-formatted modules |
| Logging | logging |
|
| Packaging | uv |
|
| Tests | pytest |
|
| Typing | mypy |
Type all methods |
| Imports | ruff |
1 maintainer
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