How to "docker-compose up" for images from Docker Hub

Question

Is it possible to pull and start all containers defined in docker-compose.yml? I'm trying to execute docker-compose up -d my/image, where my/image is a repo on DockerHub, but it says "Can't find docker-compose.yml". I also tried first to pull the image using docker pull my/image with the same result

UPD: The image https://hub.docker.com/r/gplcart/core/, source - https://github.com/gplcart/docker-core

SOLVED: It seems docker-compose does not work that way I want. I need to create a directory manually, place docker-compose.yml there, then run docker-compose up.

https://docs.docker.com/compose/wordpress/#define-the-project

I expected that running docker-compose up -d repo/image is enough to download and run all defined containers

Answer 1

To pull an image use docker-compose pull <service_name>, where service_name is one of the services listed in your docker-compose.yml file

The docker pull my/image fails, but should fail with a different error than you noted (you posted a compose error)

In your example, my/name is not a valid service name because you can't use a / in the service name. Compose would give you a different error.

It's unclear to me what my/name represents (assuming you replaced it with something locally).

If you post your docker-compose.yml it would help determine what the correct docker and docker-compose commands should be.