Error when trying to start Docker containers for first time

[jez]

There is a known issue with Docker Compose that makes it difficult to launch the containers in the correct order when migrations need to be run. Specifically, the error looks like:

$ docker-compose run --rm -e RAILS_ENV=production web rake db:migrate
Starting autolabprod_db_1...
Cannot start container 2ef8d589bdcce38d8d961a762cf934e0c0326c94d6b59827c05cf15f3e6b852f: Cannot link to a non running container: /autolabprod_db_1 AS /autolabprod_web_run_1/autolabprod_db_1

It is being tracked upstream at moby/moby#7445 and docker/compose#374.

The current workaround is to:

# start the db container
$ docker-compose up db

# --- wait for the output from initialization to appear to stop ---
# --- quit the container with ^C ---

# now finally launch everything
$ docker-compose up -d

[nayak16]

Fixed with onelick