How to get docker-compose to always re-create containers from fresh images?

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docker-compose up --force-recreate is one option, but if you’re using it for CI, I would start the build with docker-compose rm -f to stop and remove the containers and volumes (then follow it with pull and up).

This is what I use:

docker-compose rm -f
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up --build -d
# Run some tests
./tests
docker-compose stop -t 1

The reason containers are recreated is to preserve any data volumes that might be used (and it also happens to make up a lot faster).

If you’re doing CI you don’t want that, so just removing everything should get you want you want.

Update: use up --build which was added in docker-compose 1.7

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