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How to "docker compose down" for certain service?

I have a a script which builds docker image, loads it to docker, updates docker-compose.yml then it calls docker compose down and docker compose up. After the Docker compose up services are recreated and service which i’m interesting for is running with correct (new) version.

I don’t want to stop all services, which are stopped by docker compose down, i want to stop the only target one. I found that both docker compose up and docker compose down supports specifying service name

down:
https://forums.docker.com/t/docker-compose-down-specific-service/125914/8
https://docs.docker.com/reference/cli/docker/compose/down/
up:
https://docs.docker.com/reference/cli/docker/compose/up/

But when i call docker compose down myservicename in Docker version 25.0.3 i receive error: unknown command "myservicename" for "docker compose down"

How to stop (and remove) only one container ?
May be there is another way to "update image" for only one container?

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    I found the following solution just docker compose up -d servicename, without anydocker compose down and docker compose rm.

    In response i receive:

     Container servicename Recreate
 Container servicename Recreated
 Container servicename Starting
 Container servicename Started

    So, according to the output i can conclude container was recreated.

    Despite others say it will be better to "stop and remove" old container, before recreating, i decided to post this answer, may be it will be useful for some one. In general i agree, - "stop and remove" the container ensures a clean restart.


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    You should use a combination of docker compose stop and docker compose rm commands, which do allow specifying a service name.

    Stop the specific service: First, you need to stop the service if it’s running

    docker compose stop myservicename

    Remove the stopped service container: After stopping the service, you can remove its container.

    docker compose rm -f myservicename

    Update and restart the specific service: Now that the specific service is stopped and removed, you can proceed to update its image and restart it.

    docker compose up -d --no-deps --build myservicename
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