How to tag docker image with docker-compose

I want to build image via docker-compose and set specific tag to it. Documentation says:

Compose will build and tag it with a generated name, and use that image thereafter.

But I can't find a way to specify tag and for built images I always see 'latest' tag.

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It seems the docs/tool have been updated and you can now add the image tag to your script. This was successful for me.

Example:

version: '2'
services: baggins.api.rest: image: my.image.name:rc2 build: context: ../.. dockerfile: app/Docker/Dockerfile.release ports: ...
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Original answer Nov 20 '15:

No option for a specific tag as of Today. Docker compose just does its magic and assigns a tag like you are seeing. You can always have some script call docker tag <image> <tag> after you call docker-compose.

Now there's an option as described above or here

build: ./dir
image: webapp:tag

I'd like to add that you can also manage your tag versions through environment variables or an .env file.

export TAG=1.11

Example:

version: '3.3'
services: baggins.api.rest: image: my.image.name:${TAG} build: context: ../.. dockerfile: app/Docker/Dockerfile.release ports: ...

docker-compose config to validate

In my ci pipeline my first build is tagged with a throwaway value used for running tests. Then I change the tag to latest and rebuild again (nearly instant since it's all cached) before pushing to the registry.

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If you specify image as well as build, then Compose names the built image with the webapp and optional tag specified in image:

build: ./dir
image: webapp:tag

This results in an image named webapp and tagged tag, built from ./dir.

you can try:

services: nameis: container_name: hi_my build: . image: hi_my_nameis:v1.0.0

If you have already built your image, you can re-tag it by using the docker tag command:

docker tag imagename imagename:v1.0
docker tag imagename:v1.0 imagename:v1.1

If you have multiple tags attached to your repository, and if you want to remove one of them, you can use the docker rmi command:

$ docker rmi imagename:v1.0
Untagged imagename:v1.0

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