Docker: Uses an image, skipping (docker-compose)

I found out, I was being stupid.

I didn't need to run docker-compose build I can just directly run docker-compose up since then it'll pull the images down, the build is just to build locally

in my case below command worked:

docker-compose up --force-recreate

I hope this helps!

Clarification: This message (<service> uses an image, skipping) is NOT an error. It's informing the user that the service uses Image and it's therefore pre-built, So it's skipped by the build command.

In other words - You don't need build , you need to up the service.

Solution:

run sudo docker-compose up <your-service>

PS: In case you changed some configuration on your docker-compose use --force-recreate flag to apply the changes and creating it again.

sudo docker-compose up --force-recreate <your-service>

My problem was that I wanted to upgrade the image so I tried to use:

• docker build --no-cache
• docker-compose up --force-recreate
• docker-compose up --build

None of which rebuild the image.

What is missing ( from this post ) is:

docker-compose stop
docker-compose rm -f # remove old images
docker-compose pull  # download new images
docker-compose up -d