`docker run --rm` incompatible with `restart: always`

[wernight]

Having a docker-compose.yml with restart: always is good for services started by docker up. However when executing commands during a build or during development via docker run --rm ... it'll also restart that container and this command will loop forever.

• Could allow specifying --restart never for docker run but that's edge.
• Should ignore restart: during docker-compose run ... commands, only use it for docker-compose start or docker-compose up
• Could restart linked containers even if they don't have restart: always. This would also fix the issue as one could do:

service:
  links:
    - web
  restart: always
web:
  image: nginx
  links: php
php:
  image: php

Then a docker-compose run --rm php ... would not restart this command, but a docker-compose up service would start and restart all linked services.

[wernight]

It also affects linked containers. For example:

web:
  image: nginx
test:
  links: php

$ docker-compose run --rm test

Will start but not stop web.

[dnephin]

Duplicate of #1013 I think

[wernight]

Yes looks like almost duplicate but without requiring any docker up -d.

[Neppord]

1+

the current behavior is bad and not that intuitive.

[wernight]

I think it has been fixed in 1.3.

[wernight]

docker-compose run without --rm should it respect restart: always or
not? I guess you're arguing it should not. I'm finding both solutions valid
and I'm more thinking about issues. If there is a flag --restart=always
for docker-compose run then I'd agree. Without that, there are cases
where it would else remove features.

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1+

the current behavior is bad and not that intuitive.

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[dnephin]

this was fixed in #1205