Easily start and stop docker compose projects with captain, arrrrr.

Binaries can be manually downloaded from GitHub releases: https://github.com/jenssegers/captain/releases

curl -L https://github.com/jenssegers/captain/releases/download/0.3.3/captain-osx > /usr/local/bin/captain && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/captain

curl -L https://github.com/jenssegers/captain/releases/download/0.3.3/captain-linux > /usr/local/bin/captain && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/captain

Download captain.exe via https://github.com/jenssegers/captain/releases/download/0.3.3/captain.exe

Captain searches for docker-compose projects in your $HOME folder and allows you to start and stop those projects by matching the project's directory name.

If I have a folder called my-secret-project that contains a docker-compose.yml file, I can start that project using:

captain start my-secret-project

Captain will also do partial matching of the project name, so that you can also use:

captain start secret

Captain is smart, and does fuzzy matching:

captain start scrt

Stopping a project works similarly:

captain stop secret

Restart a project using:

captain restart my-secret-project

View logs of a project using:

captain logs my-secret-project

You can see all managable projects using:

captain list

To quickly stop all running docker containers, use:

captain abandon

Executing command in a running service container

captain exec <project> <service> <command>
captain exec my-secret-project web bash

Executing command as a new service container

captain run <project> <service> <command>
captain run my-secret-project cli bash

You can tweak some behaviour through some environmental variables:

• CAPTAIN_ROOT: the starting directory from where the docker-compose are searched (default: home dir of the user)
• CAPTAIN_DEPTH: the number of subdirectory where to search the docker-compose.yml files (default: 5)