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PLEASE FIX DOCKER_COMPOSE - THIS IS HOW!

add: docker-compose use

AngelBox provides a framework for running compositions of docker images. The obvious tool for this is docker-compose. Ironically, the one thing that docker-compose is lousy at, is "composition".

Docker-compose prefers one single yaml file that specifies a 'composition' of all of your services. But, what you cant do is "COMPOSE" that 'composition' by assembly.

AngelBox uses a simple method to create this 'composition' that can be applied to any and every docker image. Each docker image is represented by its own yaml file in which all of the important features are made customisable through variables.

see: http://github.com/keithy/angelbox

The script docker-compose-use creates a .env file for docker-compose to use. It processes an input composition-list.env file which provides the list of services to be composed and values for the variables. This file format is just the original .env file format but with comments and line continuations allowed, thats it! That is the only change necessary to make docker-compose "composable".

usage:
#> docker-compose-use ./config-example/server.env

where ./config-example/server.env is:

MYSQL_IMAGE=mariadb/10.4-bionic
MYSQL_PORTS_3306=4000

COMPOSE_FILE=common.yml:\
    hub/official/mysql.yml:\
    hub/official/mysql/+file-secrets.yml:\
    common-end.yml

• Additions/Variations are provided in a folder with the name of the service.
• Overrides are indicated by the + in the filename.
• comments and blank lines are ignored.
• Variables are named (strictly) according to their position in the yaml structure.

A second env file can be provided with additional values that relate to a specific deployment instance, which can be used like so.

docker-compose-use my-services.env $(hostname).env