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| Description | Creates containers for a service | | Usage | docker compose create [OPTIONS] [SERVICE...] |

Description

Creates containers for a service

Options

Option	Default	Description
--build		Build images before starting containers
--force-recreate		Recreate containers even if their configuration and image haven't changed
--no-build		Don't build an image, even if it's policy
--no-recreate		If containers already exist, don't recreate them. Incompatible with --force-recreate.
--pull	policy	Pull image before running ("always"|"missing"|"never"|"build")
--quiet-pull		Pull without printing progress information
--remove-orphans		Remove containers for services not defined in the Compose file
--scale		Scale SERVICE to NUM instances. Overrides the scale setting in the Compose file if present.
-y, --yes		Assume "yes" as answer to all prompts and run non-interactively