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I have Flask application running under Docker Compose with 2 containers one for Flask and the other one for Nginx.

I am able to run the Flask successfully using docker-compose up --build -d command in my local machine.

What I want is, to save the images into .tar.gz file and move them to the production server and run them automatically. I have used below Bash script to save the Flask and Nginx into one image successfully.

#!/bin/bash



for img in $(docker-compose config | awk '{if ($1 == "image:") print $2;}'); do

  images="$images $img"

done



docker save $images | gzip -c > flask_image.tar.gz

I then moved this image flask_image.tar.gz to my production server where Docker installed and used below command to load the image and run the containers.

docker load -i flask_image.ta.gz

This command loaded every layer and loaded the image into my production server. But containers are not up which is expected, since I used only load command.

My question is, is there any command that can load the image and up the containers automatically?

docker-compose.yml

version: '3'



services:



  api:

    container_name: flask

    image: flask_img

    restart: always

    build: ./app

    volumes:

      - ~/docker_data/api:/app/uploads

    ports:

      - "8000:5000"

    command: gunicorn -w 1 -b :5000 wsgi:app -t 900



  proxy:

    container_name: nginx

    image: proxy_img

    restart: always

    build: ./nginx

    volumes:

      - ~/docker_data/nginx:/var/log/nginx/

    ports:

      - "85:80"

    depends_on:

      - api

Since you mention you already are pushing the docker image to Docker Hub, that means the image has a dockerhub tag that you can use to pull it also.

Usually I use something like this to pull images that are on a registry:

docker run --rm -d --restart=always -p 80:8080 my-dockerhub-user/my-image-name:my-tag

which would run the container in daemon mode and restart if it were to fail. That's just an example; you'd want the ports to align with whatever flask is listening on (8080 in my example) and and the what your server should be listening on (80 in my example).

The server will automatically pull the image down and run it. You can use tags to promote new images, but in that case you'll have to kill the old container as well.