How to stop all containers when one container stops with docker-compose?

Question

Up until recently, when one was doing docker-compose up for a bunch of containers and one of the started containers stopped, all of the containers were stopped. This is not the case anymore since https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/741 and this is a really annoying for us: We use docker-compose to run selenium tests which means starting application server, starting selenium hub + nodes, starting tests driver, then exiting when tests driver stops.

Is there a way to get back old behaviour?

Answer 1

You can use:

docker-compose up --abort-on-container-exit

Which will stop all containers if one of your containers stops

Answer 2

In your docker compose file, setup your test driver container to depend on other containers (with depends_on parameter). Your docker compose file should look like this:

services:   application_server:      ...   selenium:      ...   test_driver:     entry_point: YOUR_TEST_COMMAND     depends_on:       - application_server       - selenium 

With dependencies expressed this way, run:

docker-compose run test_driver 

and all the other containers will shut down when the test_driver container is finished.

This solution is an alternative to the docker-compose up --abort-on-container-exit answer. The latter will also shut down all other containers if any of them exits (not only the test driver). It depends on your use case which one is more adequate.