I’m trying to get rolling updates working with docker compose (without swarm) and it’s not working. Example: services: test: image: ubuntu:22.04 command: sleep 60 deploy: replicas: 2 update_config: parallelism: 1 delay: 30s order: start-first …

Rolling update not working with docker compose

bluepuma77 (Bluepuma77) July 3, 2025, 11:35am 2

Rolling updates only work with Docker Swarm, as just discussed here.

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