This is a collection of snippets showing some common use-cases for the plugin and its caveats.
The following pipeline will run test.sh
inside a app
service container using Docker Compose, the equivalent to running docker-compose run app test.sh
:
steps:
- command: test.sh
plugins:
- docker-compose#v5.0.0:
run: app
;
or the plugin's command
option instead:
steps:
- plugins:
- docker-compose#v5.0.0:
run: app
command: ["custom", "command", "values"]
The plugin will honor the value of the COMPOSE_FILE
environment variable if one exists (for example, at the pipeline or step level). But you can also specify custom Docker Compose config files with the config
option:
steps:
- command: test.sh
plugins:
- docker-compose#v5.0.0:
run: app
config: docker-compose.tests.yml
env:
- BUILDKITE_BUILD_NUMBER
You can leverage the docker-login plugin in tandem for authenticating with a registry. For example, the following will build and push an image to a private repo, and pull from that private repo in subsequent run commands:
steps:
- plugins:
- docker-login#v2.0.1:
username: xyz
- docker-compose#v5.0.0:
build: app
push: app:index.docker.io/myorg/myrepo:tag
- wait
- command: test.sh
plugins:
- docker-login#v2.0.1:
username: xyz
- docker-compose#v5.0.0:
run: app
Note, you will need to add the configuration to all steps in which you use this plugin.
If you’re generating artifacts in the build step, you’ll need to ensure your Docker Compose configuration volume mounts the host machine directory into the container where those artifacts are created.
For example, if your app
service generates information that you want as artifacts in the /folder/dist
folder, you would need to ensure the app
service in your Docker Compose config has a host volume mount defined as ./dist:/folder/dist
or specify it in the plugin's configuration:
steps:
- command: generate-dist.sh
artifact_paths: "dist/*"
plugins:
- docker-compose#v5.0.0:
run: app
volumes:
- "./dist:/folder/dist"
If you want to use environment variables in the volumes
element, you will need to activate the (unsafe) option expand-volume-vars
(and most likely escape it using $$VARIABLE_NAME
to ensure they are not interpolated when the pipeline is uploaded).
By default, docker-compose makes whatever environment variables it gets available for interpolation of docker-compose.yml, but it doesn't pass them in to your containers.
You can use the environment key in docker-compose.yml to either set specific environment vars or "pass through" environment variables from outside docker-compose.
If you want to add extra environment above what is declared in your docker-compose.yml
,
this plugin offers a environment
block of its own:
steps:
- command: generate-dist.sh
plugins:
- docker-compose#v5.0.0:
run: app
env:
- BUILDKITE_BUILD_NUMBER
- BUILDKITE_PULL_REQUEST
- MY_CUSTOM_ENV=llamas
Note how the values in the list can either be just a key (so the value is sourced from the environment) or a KEY=VALUE pair.
Alternatively, you can have the plugin add all environment variables defined for the job by the agent as defined in BUILDKITE_ENV_FILE
activating the propagate-environment
option:
steps:
- command: use-vars.sh
plugins:
- docker-compose#v5.0.0:
run: app
propagate-environment: true
When running a command, the plugin will automatically add the following Docker labels to the container specified in the run
option:
com.buildkite.pipeline_name=${BUILDKITE_PIPELINE_NAME}
com.buildkite.pipeline_slug=${BUILDKITE_PIPELINE_SLUG}
com.buildkite.build_number=${BUILDKITE_BUILD_NUMBER}
com.buildkite.job_id=${BUILDKITE_JOB_ID}
com.buildkite.job_label=${BUILDKITE_LABEL}
com.buildkite.step_key=${BUILDKITE_STEP_KEY}
com.buildkite.agent_name=${BUILDKITE_AGENT_NAME}
com.buildkite.agent_id=${BUILDKITE_AGENT_ID}
These labels can make it easier to query containers on hosts using docker ps
for example:
docker ps --filter "label=com.buildkite.job_label=Run tests"
This behaviour can be disabled with the run-labels: false
option.
You can use the build args key in docker-compose.yml to set specific build arguments when building an image.
Alternatively, if you want to set build arguments when pre-building an image, this plugin offers an args
block of its own:
steps:
- command: generate-dist.sh
plugins:
- docker-compose#v5.0.0:
build: app
args:
- MY_CUSTOM_ARG=panda
push: app
Note that the values in the list must be a KEY=VALUE
pair.
If you have multiple steps that use the same service/image (such as steps that run in parallel), you can use this plugin in a specific build
step to your pipeline. That will set specific metadata in the pipeline for this plugin to use in run
steps afterwards:
steps:
- label: ":docker: Build"
plugins:
- docker-compose#v5.0.0:
build: app
push: app
- wait
- label: ":docker: Test %n"
command: test.sh
parallelism: 25
plugins:
- docker-compose#v5.0.0:
run: app
All run
steps for the service app
will automatically pull and use the pre-built image. Without this, each Test %n
job would build its own instead.
Sometimes your compose file has multiple services that need building. The example below will build images for the app
and tests
service and then the run step will pull them down and use them for the run as needed.
steps:
- label: ":docker: Build"
agents:
queue: docker-builder
plugins:
- docker-compose#v5.0.0:
build:
- app
- tests
push:
- app
- tests
- wait
- label: ":docker: Test %n"
command: test.sh
parallelism: 25
plugins:
- docker-compose#v5.0.0:
run: tests
If you want to push your Docker images ready for deployment, you can use the push
configuration (which operates similar to docker-compose push:
steps:
- label: ":docker: Push"
plugins:
- docker-compose#v5.0.0:
push: app
To push multiple images, you can use a list:
steps:
- label: ":docker: Push"
plugins:
- docker-compose#v5.0.0:
push:
- first-service
- second-service
If you want to push to a specific location (that's not defined as the image
in your docker-compose.yml), you can use the {service}:{repo}:{tag}
format, for example:
steps:
- label: ":docker: Push"
plugins:
- docker-compose#v5.0.0:
push:
- app:index.docker.io/myorg/myrepo/myapp
- app:index.docker.io/myorg/myrepo/myapp:latest
A newly spawned agent won't contain any of the docker caches for the first run which will result in a long build step. To mitigate this you can reuse caches from a previously built image (if it was pushed from a previous build):
steps:
- label: ":docker Build an image"
plugins:
- docker-compose#v5.0.0:
build: app
push: app:index.docker.io/myorg/myrepo:my-branch
cache-from:
- "app:myregistry:port/myrepo/myapp:my-branch"
- "app:myregistry:port/myrepo/myapp:latest"
- wait
- label: ":docker: Push to final repository"
plugins:
- docker-compose#v5.0.0:
push:
- app:myregistry:port/myrepo/myapp:latest
For images to be pulled and used as a cache they need to be built with the BUILDKIT_INLINE_CACHE=1
build argument.
The values you add in the cache-from
will be mapped to the corresponding service's configuration. That means that you can use any valid cache type your environment supports:
steps:
- label: ":docker Build an image"
plugins:
- docker-compose#v5.0.0:
build: app
push: app:index.docker.io/myorg/myrepo:my-branch
cache-from:
- "app:type=registry,ref=myregistry:port/myrepo/myapp:my-branch"
- "app:myregistry:port/myrepo/myapp:latest"
- wait
- label: ":docker: Push to final repository"
plugins:
- docker-compose#v5.0.0:
push:
- app:myregistry:port/myrepo/myapp:latest