How do I permanently rename a Docker container?-CodePudding

I use docker-compose to build a PHP 8 / Nginx for a Laravel application. I start it successfully with docker-compse -up.

docker ps gives me the following output:

CONTAINER ID  IMAGE        COMMAND                   NAMES
b0e55ad98a63  laravel-app  "docker-php-entrypoi..."  laravel_docker_medium_tut_app_1
da779e8fa633  nginx:alpine "/docker-entrypoint...."  laravel_docker_medium_tut_nginx_1

My folder where I have the docker-compose.yml is called: ./laravel_docker_medium_tut/.

I can rename the containers with:

docker rename b0e55ad98a63 laravel-api-app
docker rename da779e8fa633 laravel-api-nginx

docker ps now prints me the successfully renamed containers:

CONTAINER ID  IMAGE        COMMAND                   NAMES
b0e55ad98a63  laravel-app  "docker-php-entrypoi..."  laravel-api-app
da779e8fa633  nginx:alpine "/docker-entrypoint...."  laravel-api-nginx

Problem: If I now run docker-compose down and then docker-compose up -d again I have the old names again: laravel_docker_medium_tut_app_1, laravel_docker_medium_tut_nginx_1 .

My question: How can I permanently rename the names?

Here is my docker-compose.yml:

version: "3.7"
services:

#Laravel App
  app:
    build:
      args:
        user: mike
        uid: 1000
      context: ./
      dockerfile: Dockerfile
    image: laravel-app
    restart: unless-stopped
    working_dir: /var/www/
    volumes:
      - ./:/var/www
    networks:
      - mynetwork
    
 #Nginx Service
  nginx:
    image: nginx:alpine
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 8000:80
    volumes:
      - ./:/var/www
      - ./nginx/conf.d:/etc/nginx/conf.d/
    networks:
      - mynetwork
  #Mysl Service
      
networks:
  mynetwork:
    driver: bridge

Thanks for your time and help!

CodePudding user response：

You can use container_name in your docker-compose.yaml.