Managing Apps with Compose

Learn how to stop, restart, delete, and check the status of Compose applications using Docker Compose subcommands.

In this lesson, we’ll see how to stop, restart, delete, and get the status of Compose apps.

The docker compose down command

Run the following command to shut down the app. If you started it in the foreground, you’ll see messages requesting the app to gracefully quit.

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