Custom container name for docker-compose

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Hey tech687,

To get faster answers, maybe you should put a bit of efforts into explaining your problem. Like, you know, formatting and such :wink:

Now, for what I understand, you just want to change the name of your container. In docker-compose, you can do this by setting the “container_name” property on any of your containers.

For example:

db:
   image: mysql:5.7
   container_name: db

If you don’t want to change the container name, but needs ‘user-friendly’ names for discovery, you can as well set the ‘hostname’ property, or you can add network aliases, like such:

  db:
       image: mysql:5.7
       container_name: mycontainername
       hostname: myhostname
       networks:
           default:
                aliases:
                   myalias

I hope this helps

Regards

P.S: Feel free to consult docker-compose documentation for information, it will save you 6 months sitting on your hands instead of a simple… google search ^^

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