OpenCompose file reference

A brief example of the OpenCompose specification:

version: "0.1-dev"

services:
- name: foobar
  replicas: 3
  labels:
    foo_label: bar_label
  containers:
  - name: baz
    image: foo/bar:tag
    env:
    - name: foo
      value: bar
    command: ["/bin/foobar"]
    args:
    - "-f"
    - "/tmp/foobar"
    ports:
    - port: 8080:80
      type: internal
      host: domain.tld
      path: /admin
    mounts:
    - volumeRef: db
      mountPath: /app/store
      volumeSubPath: foo/bar
      readOnly: true
  emptyDirVolumes:
  - name: temp

volumes:
- name: db
  size: 5GiB
  accessMode: ReadWriteMany
  storageClass: fast

The OpenCompose format has three main sections: version, services and volumes.

Section: Version

version: "0.1-dev"

Type	Required
string	yes

The current version of the OpenCompose format

Section: Services

services:
- <Service>
  ...

- <Service>
  ...

services is main section that lists all the services.

services is an array of Service.

Service

Describes one service. Service can be composed of one or multiple containers which are scheduled together and can communicate using localhost. (Containers in the same service share network namespace.)

Each service has name and list of the containers, while replicas can be optional.

Example:

services:
- name: foobar
  replicas: 3
  labels:
    foo_label: bar_label
  containers:
  - <Container>
  emptyDirVolumes:
  - <EmptyDirVolume>

name

Type	Required
string	yes

Name of the service.

replicas

Type	Required
integer	no

Number of desired pods of this particluar service. This is an optional field. The valid value can only be a positive number.

labels

Type	Required
map with string keys and string values	no

Desired labels to be applied to the resulting Kubernetes objects from the service.

containers

Type	Required
array of Container	yes

Each item in containers (Container) defines one container. All the containers in container array for given service will be in same Pod.

emptyDirVolumes

Type	Required
array of EmptyDirVolumeSpec	no

Each item in emptyDirVolumes (EmptyDirVolumeSpec) defines a EmptyDir volume. These volumes will be shared among the containers in the service.

Container

services:
- name: foobar
  ...
  containers:
  - name: baz
    image: foo/bar:tag
    env:
    - name: foo
      value: bar
    command: ["/bin/foobar"]
    args:
    - "-f"
    - "/tmp/foobar"
    ports:
    - <Port>
    mounts:
    - <Mount>
  ...

Container describes an image to use, its arguments, which ports should be exposed and how.

name

Type	Required
string	yes

Name of the container.

image

Type	Required
string	yes

Name of the image that container will be started from.

env

Type	Required
array of EnvVariables	no

List of environment variables to set in the container. Each string has to be formated as variable_name=value.

command

NOT YET IMPLEMENTED

Type	Required
array of strings	no

Command ran by the container. Overrides default Entrypoint from Docker container image.

command field in in OpenCompose works in the same way as command filed in Kubernetes.

You can find more information in the Kubernetes documentation

args

NOT YET IMPLEMENTED

Type	Required
array of strings	no

Arguments passed to the command. This overrides default Command from Docker container image.

args field in OpenCompose works in the same way as args field in Kubernetes. You can find more about it in Kubernetes documentation

ports

Type	Required
array of Port	no

This defines what ports will be exposed for communication.

mounts

Type	Required
array of Mount	no

This defines what volumes will be mounted inside the container.

envVariables

services:
- name: foobar
  ...
  containers:
    - ...
      env:
      - name: foo
        value: bar
    ...
  ...

Inside the containers, the environment variables will generally be visible as foo=bar.

name

Type	Required
string	yes

This is a string which defines the name of the environment variable being set.

value

Type	Required
string	yes

This is string which defines the value of the environment variable being set.

Port

services:
- name: foobar
  ...
  containers:
    - ...
      ports:
        - port: 8080:80
          type: internal
          host: domain.tld
          path: /admin
    ...
  ...

port

Type	Required
string	yes

This is a string in following format: ContainerPort:ServicePort

ContainerPort is port inside container (where service inside container accepts new connections)
ServicePort is port on which this service will be accessible for others.

ServicePort is optional. It defaults to ContainerPort if not specified.

type

Type	Required	possible values
enum(string)	no	`internal` or `external`

Default value for Type is internal.

internal - port will be accessible only from inside the Kubernetes cluster
external - port will be accessible from inside and outside of the Kubernetes cluster

host

Type	Required	possible values
string	no	FQDN (fully qualified domain name) as defined by RFC 3986

Specifying host will make your application accessible outside of the cluster on domain specified as a value of host. (Note: this requires you to manually setup DNS records to point to your cluster's Ingress router. For development you can use services like http://nip.io/ or [http://xip.io/].)

path

Type	Required	possible values
string	no	An extended POSIX regex as defined by IEEE Std 1003.1
		(i.e this follows the egrep/unix syntax, not the perl syntax)

If you don't specify a path it matches all request to host.
You have to specify host if you want to specify path.

Path Based Ingresses

Path based ingresses specify a path component that can be compared against a URL (which requires that the traffic for the ingress be HTTP based) such that multiple ingresses can be served using the same host name, each with a different path. Ingress controller should match ingresses based on the most specific path to the least; however, this depends on the ingress controller implementation. The following table shows example ingresses and their accessibility:

Ingress	When Compared to	Accessible
example.com/test	example.com/test	Yes
	example.com	No
example.com/test and example.com	example.com/test	Yes
	example.com	Yes
example.com	example.com/test	Yes (Matched by the host, not the ingress)
	example.com	Yes

Mount

...
services:
- name: foobar
  ...
  containers:
    - ...
      mounts:
      - volumeRef: db
        mountPath: /app/store
        volumeSubPath: foo/bar
        readOnly: true
    ...
...

volumeRef

Type	Required	possible values
string	yes	should conform to the definition of a subdomain in DNS (RFC 1123), details.

Should match the name of volume from root level volumes directive or service level emptyDirVolumes directive.

mountPath

Type	Required
string	yes

Absolute path within the container at which the volume should be mounted. Must not contain ':'.

volumeSubPath

Type	Required	Default value
string	no	"" (volume's root)

Path within the volume from which the container's volume should be mounted. Defaults to "" (volume's root).

readOnly

Type	Required	Default value
bool	no	`false`

Volume is mounted read-only if true, read-write otherwise.

EmptyDirVolume

Describes one EmptyDir volume. This can be referenced from the container mounts.

services:
- name: foobar
  ...
  emptyDirVolumes:
  - name: temp

name

Type	Required
string	yes

Name of the EmptyDir volume.

Section: Volumes

volumes is main section that lists all the volumes that this OpenCompose file describes. volumes has to be array of VolumeSpec.

Volume

Describes one volume. This can be referenced from the container mounts.

Each volume has size defined, the accessmodes defined and storage class from where this should be read.

volumes:
- name: db
  size: 5GiB
  accessMode: ReadWriteMany
  storageClass: fast

name

Type	Required	possible values
string	yes	should conform to the definition of a subdomain in DNS (RFC 1123), details.

Name of the volume.

size

Type	Required	possible values
string	yes	must match the regular expression `'^([+-]?[0-9.]+)([eEinumkKMGTP][-+]?[0-9])$`

Size of the volume created.

accessMode

Type	Required	possible values
string	yes	`ReadWriteOnce` or `ReadOnlyMany` or `ReadWriteMany`

AccessMode contains the desired access mode the volume should have.

storageClass

Type	Required
string	no

Name of the StorageClass that will back this volume.

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OpenCompose file reference

Section: Version

Section: Services

Service

name

replicas

labels

containers

emptyDirVolumes

Container

name

image

env

command

args

ports

mounts

envVariables

name

value

Port

port

type

host

path

Path Based Ingresses

Mount

volumeRef

mountPath

volumeSubPath

readOnly

EmptyDirVolume

name

Section: Volumes

Volume

name

size

accessMode

storageClass