docker compose exec

This is the equivalent of docker exec targeting a Compose service.

With this subcommand, you can run arbitrary commands in your services. Commands allocate a TTY by default, so you can use a command such as docker compose exec web sh to get an interactive prompt.

By default, Compose will enter container in interactive mode and allocate a TTY, while the equivalent docker exec command requires passing --interactive --tty flags to get the same behavior. Compose also support those two flags to offer a smooth migration between commands, whenever they are no-op by default. Still, interactive can be used to force disabling interactive mode (--interactive=false), typically when docker compose exec command is used inside a script.

Options

Name	Type	Default	Description
`-d`, `--detach`	`bool`		Detached mode: Run command in the background
`--dry-run`	`bool`		Execute command in dry run mode
`-e`, `--env`	`stringArray`		Set environment variables
`--index`	`int`	`0`	Index of the container if service has multiple replicas
`-T`, `--no-tty`	`bool`	`true`	Disable pseudo-TTY allocation. By default 'docker compose exec' allocates a TTY.
`--privileged`	`bool`		Give extended privileges to the process
`-u`, `--user`	`string`		Run the command as this user
`-w`, `--workdir`	`string`		Path to workdir directory for this command

Description

This is the equivalent of docker exec targeting a Compose service.

With this subcommand, you can run arbitrary commands in your services. Commands allocate a TTY by default, so you can use a command such as docker compose exec web sh to get an interactive prompt.